by Andre Brink [1979]
Dramatised by Barry Campbell
Directed by Jane Morgan
Broadcast: Monday 28th February 1983, Monday Play.
128/44; 83.6 MB; sound quality good (minor radio noise)
Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies - until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair - a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.
With Nigel Hawthorne [Ben du Toit], John Matshikiza [Stanley Makhaya], Peggy Pnango [Emily Ngubene], Estelle Kohler [Melanie Brewer], Steve Hodson [Captain Stolz], Bruce Purchase [Colonel Viljoen], Allan Ivan [Advocate de Villiers], Adrian Egan [Advocate Louw / The Government Minister], Brian Carroll [Dr. Hertzog / The SABC Newsreader], Arne Gordon [The Magistrate / Father-in-Law], Willie Jonah [Tsabalala / Johnson Seroke], Alfred Hoffman [Dr. Jansen / Dr. Hassiem], Elizabeth Adare [Grace Nkosi], Miranda Forbes [Susan du Toit], Lois Butlin [Suzette], Moira Downie [Linda], Edward Cast [Cloete, the Headmaster], Olu Jacobs [Gordon Ngubene, Emily's Husband], Louis Mahoney [Father Masuwane], and Jack Klaff [Levinson / Andre].
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