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Jeanette Fourie’s journey is a voyage in self-exploration, moving from a conservative religious outlook, where her sense of a just and loving God and an ordered universe is challenged by the murder of a beloved daughter in apartheid conflicted South Africa. Grief stricken, she confronts the ‘terrorist’ Letlapa Mphahlele who led the massacre which killed Lyndi. His acknowledgment of her anger leads to mutual recognition of the futility and spiritual emptiness of vengeance and reprisal. For both, the challenge would become to ‘forgive the unforgiveable’.

But it is not just her own story that she tells. She interweaves the narrative with personal experiences of those who fought and suffered in the struggle to defeat apartheid, enlightening us of the cost of racial conflict, loss of identity and land in other places within Africa and beyond. Now living in Australia, Jeanete is more than aware of the comparable experience of the First Australians since European occupation.

The Lyndi Tree branches out from sorrow and grief to a sense of the strength of forgiveness and personal reconciliation. It is a powerful and deeply moving testimony.