Ominous inevitabilities: reflecting on South Africa's post-transition aporia in Achmat Dangor's "Bitter Fruit"

"Achmat Dangor's novel Bitter Fruit (2001), nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2004, is one of several important works of fiction that comment on the imperfections of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), offering a polemical critique of South Africa's on-going transition. In this article, the author examines two significant ways in which Dangor's novel questions the work o…