It’s 2008. Thabo Mbeki is about to be ousted as president.

The South African ANC-led government sends Morati Sello, a young, attractive banker, on a study tour to Australia, to prepare him to head up a new development bank back home.

Throughout his travels across New South Wales, without much effort on his part, Morati attracts the attention of a string of hot-blooded and sexually liberated women. He has copious amounts of sex, breaking taboo after taboo, as the only black man at the dinner party.

As he travels through the outback, he also learns about Australia’s politics and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s controversial “Apology” to the Aboriginal people. Via Skype, he stays in touch with his good friend, Pax Pekane, who updates him on the latest news about the Zuma/ Mbeki feud.

The Sweetest Taboo is a breakthrough novel. It fearlessly goes where no local book has dared to tread. It’s highly erotic, thought-provoking and tongue-in-cheek hilarious. The sex is hot and wild. And so are the politics.