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Since the official end of apartheid, different state actors and non-state actors have beenchanting the creed of national reconciliation and reconstruction for a better and harmoniousSouth Africa. In fact, Desmond Tutu's vision of the "rainbow nation", to an extent, has been thedriving force behind the policies of successive regimes in South Africa following the trauma anddispossession of the past. Since literature can also be conceived as an interpretation of societyin time and space, the discourse of national reconciliation and reconstruction has found inroadsin the literary and cultural productions of post-apartheid South Africa. This paper, thus, seeks toshow the relationship between post-apartheid female narratives and post-apartheid politics. Inother words, it verifies the contributory role of South African female writers in re-negotiating,re-conciliating and re-constructing the post-apartheid nation. In this connection, this paper ispredicated on the premise that the post-apartheid South African female writer, just like her malecounterpart, is also involved in the political project of nation building through politicalnegotiation, reconciliation, and reconstruction. These writers, in their works, affirm the view thatwithout political dialogue and reconciliation, the nation-building project in post-apartheid SouthAfrica is a mere hoax and an exercise in futility.