A Dry White Season (Afrikaans: ’N droë wit seisoen ) is a 1979 novel by Afrikaner novelist André Brink. The novel focuses on the death during detention of a black activist. The novel challenges Apartheid, depicting the slow transformation of a ruling class Afrikaner to opposition to the regime. The novel was initially banned in South Africa; though under this ban, Brink published 3000 copies published in an underground. The novel was adapted into a 1989 film which starred Donald Sutherland, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. The film was subsequently banned in South Africa.