Beverley Roos-Muller

Writer

Beverley is a former academic lecturing in humanities at the University of Cape Town. In her early years she was a journalist on the Cape Argus, and she remains a broadcaster and writer on social, political and literary matters.

She was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1980s, including as spokesperson for the multi-organisational Open City campaign opposing the Group Areas Act, and was a delegate to Lusaka with the Five Freedoms Forum in 1989 during pre-negotiation discussions.

Her book on the Boer experience of the war, Bullet in the Heart: Four brothers ride to war 1899-1902 was published by Jonathan Ball in 2023. She is the co-author and editor, with her late husband, Professor Ampie Muller, of Vuur in sy Vingers, about his father-in-law, the poet NP Van Wyk Louw (published in 2020). Her next book, Hunting the Seven, which exposes the true story behind the assassinations of the Gugulethu Seven in 1986, will be launched in June 2024. She lives in Cape Town.

Albie Sachs on Hunting the Seven:
Armed with beautiful writing skills, great respect for sources, a generous heart and a profound sense of justice, the author hunts for and shares with the reader the unutterably banal and brutal answer to the story of the assassinations.