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Warman, Janice

 
9781431410866: Class of '79: The Story of Three Fellow Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid
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ISBN 10 : 1431410861 ISBN 13 : 9781431410866
Editeur : Jacana Media, 2014

Synopsis

Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe, trained in exile in Angola, and was eventually convicted of bombing three police stations. The Cape Times journalist Zubeida Jaffer was imprisoned, poisoned, and tortured for her writing and her union activism, yet chose not to prosecute her torturer. Guy Berger, also a student and later a lecturer at Rhodes University, was arrested and interrogated for possession of banned books. He spent seven months in custody, three of which he spent in solitary confinement. He was ultimately sentenced to four years in prison. For them, it began at the moment that each of them realized that what was happening in South Africa was wrong, and that they simply could not tolerate it. And for all of them, that moment came at Rhodes University. Each of them chose to reject their backgrounds and take the path of resistance, following in the footsteps of the famous few. Among these were the writers Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Jonker, Alan Paton; and the fighters Albie Sachs, Ruth First, Trevor Manuel, and Joe Slovo. This book is for all those who suffered under apartheid, and suffered to end it, and in particular for Marion, Zubeida, and Guy, who have shared their story so generously.

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À propos de l'auteur

Janice Warman is a journalist and editor whose career spans writing, editing, and broadcasting at a senior level for the BBC, the Daily Mail, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Observer, and the Spectator. She is author of The World Beneath and coauthor of The Hey Nonny Handbook.

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Éditeur
Jacana Media
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1431410861
ISBN 13 
9781431410866
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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Personne responsable
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