Primary Coloured: A Novel Of Politics

“Two wrongs don’t make a right – except in politics!” laughs Charlene Kennedy – the tough, charismatic woman leader of a new political party. As the country nears a general election, a major scandal involving a controversial mining magnate and the battle for the successor to the President threaten to rip the nation apart. Zandile – a young, female journalist – is on their trail. How will Kennedy’s fledgling party pit itself against the ruling ANC, and an official opposition who know and use every dirty trick in the book?

Primary Coloured is the story of a band of young idealists – Terrance, the laidback tree-hugging environmentalist, Joel – the theatre producer turned campaign manager – in a struggle against their own human weakness, where politics brings out the worst in people – lies, greed, corruption and personal ambition. Will they survive with their integrity intact? What influence does Valentine, Kennedy’s opportunistic sidekick, wield? And Moira, the mysterious British volunteer Terrance falls in love with – who is she really? And what to make of the bizarre plot they uncover to kill the President?

Pieter-Dirk Uys calls Primary Coloured “a compelling and very funny journey through the absurd democratic maze of our Parliament for the people of the people by some people who obviously can't stand people. And then there’s Charlene Kennedy who proves that nothing is either black or white!”

EAN: 9780798149082
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