K. M. Ariff 
Into the South African Heartland 

This is a travelogue. The author makes an extraordinary journey with friends to the Western Cape, South Africa. As he probes into the countrys tinted history. What impresses him are not just its friendly people, natural beauty, safari animals and marine life, but also the spirit of national reconciliation by the great Nelson Mandela, who endured twenty-seven years of imprisonment. The writer realises there is another person who played a significant role in ending the white-minority democracy.

About the author

He served in the central bank of Malaysia and later in a financial services group. In the aftermath of the east Asian financial crisis, he joined the national asset management company that handled nonperforming loans to help bring the nation out of the deepening financial crisis. After retirement, he took up writing fiction as a hobby.