#InConversationWith: Simon Bruinders
Updated | By Faith Daniels
Personal stories of tragedy and hardships are often the most difficult to tell.

But that's exactly what well known Afrikaans author, actor and playwright Simon Bruinders did.
It took him a while - but he penned his family's tale, through years of war, Apartheid and struggle.
Here is an extract from his book: A Handful of Earth:
" Your whiteness is a condition into which you were born. You don't have to be ashamed of that. But it puts us on different sides of the tracks. It forces us apart."
Faith Daniels spoke to Bruinders…


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