TRIOMF

In five days the first South African democratic elections will take place. Tensions are high throughout the land, and no less so in Triomf, the poor white suburb of Johannesburg that was built on the ruins of the black community of Sophiatown. The Benade family, who’d be considered ‘white trash’. Treppie’s fed up with the family’s poverty, their suffocating social isolation, and everything they stand for including their own history as Afrikaners, which he sees as clouded by lies and pretence.