The Pretoria Conspiracy

by Lily Mabura

The Pretoria Conspiracy was awarded the (Kenyan)
National Book Week Literary Award for the Best First Novel in 2001.

The story is set in 1945 South Africa. Colonel Willem Stewart de Veer flies in the face of convention, and segregation, by marrying a coloured woman. His family disown him; but they meet again, this time on opposing sides in the political struggle. Willem Stewart must contend with the head of the de Veer family, Paulus de Veer, and a handful of tenacious supremacists in a tense clash of the personal and the political.

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About the author

Lily Mabura

Lily Mabura is a fiction and children’s author who was born and lives
in Kenya. Her children’s book, Ali and the Little Sultan won the Jomo
Kenyatta Prize for Literature. The Pretoria Conspiracy, her first
novel, was awarded the (Kenyan) National Book Week Literary Award for
the Best First Novel in 2001.