Dealing in Lies

Deliwe and her husband, Simon Maesko, are farm workers at the height of the apartheid era. She gives birth to a daughter. No sooner has the child been born that the word is out that she gave birth to a biracial child. Instead of opting fro abandonment, Stefan Labuschagne chooses unilaterally to have the infant separated from her mother. More than two decades later, the infant - now a young adult - tracked down her living relatives. Just as her birth was a scandal, her arrival caused quite a sensation. A past most felt was best forgotten was rehashed.Dealin in Lies raises important questions including: What sort of impact did apartheid have on families who were found to have violated the Immoral Act that prohibited a sexual relationship, or otherwise, between blacks and whites? Whether the foolish decisions made by some would be excused on the basis that they were merely caught in a situation Whether the country that has been through so much, not so long ago, has learned its lesson