Synopsis "Sons and Daughters: The Eighties (in English)"
Sons and Daughters introduces you to bleak Robber Island where terrorist Peter Khumalo has been incarcerated, but life must go on for the rest of the Pack, because there are now sons and daughters to be raised. Hofmeyr grapples fiercely with technical problems at the dilapidated Hospital Hill, while Rupertheimer battles valiantly with the fanatical Green Freaks, but Nick Jarvis experiences Marital Blues when his wife has an affair with sleazy journalist Thorn Thompson. Then in 1988 Peter Khumalo is released from prison, so he joins the Rupertheimer corporation as a labour lawyer, which he comes to regret when Rupertheimer involves him in Labour Pains. People still ponder the 'miracle' 1994 democratic elections, how on earth did South Africans manage to achieve their historic transition, considering the pathetic quality of the press in that country. The Pat Stevens novels explain how this 'miracle' was arranged, Rupertheimer's many epic battles with Liberal Times newspaper, demonstrate the remarkable prescience he employed to guide his country to an embryonic democracy. Because uncle Randlord Rupertheimer had sold Liberal Times to Irish media mogul Darby O'Gill, and Rupertheimer's old school days foe Thorn Thompson was made editor, while dirty Dick Clott became a powerful Greenfreak writer. Resulting in a fierce skirmish with environmental journalist Dick Clott and his rabid Greenfreaks, then the wild chase around the construction site by enraged COSUDSA unionists, orchestrated by Liberal Times editor Thorn Thompson. Which was superb training for the tremendous task that lay before Rupertheimer, his date with destiny would shortly arrive for the Greatest Game series now moves onto the 1994 elections, described in the follow up book Democratic Dawn. The last of the four-book anthology covering four decades, packed with high adventure and pulsing excitement, set against the historic background of a slowly transforming South Africa
