Articles of faith: An epic saga of struggle, seeking and expiation - Ronald Harwood (Rare)

This book opens in 1794, with the Dutch settlers in control of Cape Town and its hinterland. And it is to this hinterland that Johannes Henning, an upright pastor, is sent, to convert the blacks, and eventually, to meet personal ruin. By 1972, at the book's close, the Boers are once again firmly in control, and the Henning family, having survived earlier setback, is outwardly one of the most powerful families in South Africa.

But in the long interim it is the British who rule the territories that are now the Republic of South Africa, among them the settler Richard Thompson, whose family becomes strangely and tragically intertwined with the Hennings down the years, until a modern descendant expiates the same sin Johannes had committed so long ago...

This is a novel of great scope, power, and excitement, rich in the epic history of South Africa.