This extract from Joost: The Man in the Mirror appears at today’s M&G Online. It’s an open letter to South Africans asking for forgiveness:
“In my life, I have achieved many things that took a lot of guts, determination and self-belief, I have sometimes faltered, but I have never really been scared, or doubted not making it through to the end. Perhaps that is why I actually enjoyed Kamp Staaldraad. I knew they couldn’t break me.
But just when I thought life had got easier and that never again would I have to be as strong as I had been, I was confronted with something far more terrifying than anything I could ever have imagined. I came face to face with my own human frailty and my conscience. I have found that when you yourself are the problem, there is nowhere to hide. And I’ve tried to hide.
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