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Book Synopsis Journey of a Hope Merchant by : Neal Petersen
Download or read book Journey of a Hope Merchant written by Neal Petersen and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Petersen was born physically disabled and impoverished in apartheid-era South Africa, but was introduced to healing and equality in the waters surrounding Cape Town. Journey of a Hope Merchant recounts the epic journey that took this misfit kid from a racially segregated, working class neighborhood to the prestigious world of solo yacht racing.
Download or read book Fault Lines written by David Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject. Goodman is sympathetic to the attempts at transformation in my beloved motherland. The message of this book applies just as easily to the United States, where the fault lines run very deep, too. And the U.S. has been trying to solve these problems a great deal longer than the new South Africa."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu "David Goodman's vivid, intensely personal, and unobtrusively erudite book is irresistible reading for anyone who cares about South Africa."—Adam Hochshild, author of King Leopold's Ghost "A gem of a book. An excellent introduction to the intricacies of South African politics and society."—Gail M. Gerhart, Foreign Affairs "A sequence of truths shown through the lives of eight contrasted citizens, this book reveals our new South Africa with the startling accuracy of flashes of lightning on a stormy night—and with the apartheid storm over, a remarkable rainbow of hope can be seen."—Donald Woods, author of Biko
Book Synopsis Journey in to Apartheid by : Robert G. Crawford
Download or read book Journey in to Apartheid written by Robert G. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journey to Jo'burg by : Beverley Naidoo
Download or read book Journey to Jo'burg written by Beverley Naidoo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in teaching literature to high school students.
Book Synopsis Journey to Jo'burg by : Beverley Naidoo
Download or read book Journey to Jo'burg written by Beverley Naidoo and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their baby sister becomes dangerously ill, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers from their village to Johannesburg, where their mother works as a maid for a white family.
Book Synopsis Knowledge in the Blood by : Jonathan D. Jansen
Download or read book Knowledge in the Blood written by Jonathan D. Jansen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how white South African students learn and confront their Apartheid past, and explores how this knowledge transforms both the students and the author, the first black dean of an historically white university.
Book Synopsis Truth is a Strange Fruit by : David Beresford
Download or read book Truth is a Strange Fruit written by David Beresford and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice voted Britain's top foreign correspondent, David Beresford has produced a 'word picture' of South Africa's Apartheid War. Borrowing from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and plundering his own journalism, he gives his 'truth' of the apartheid years. He has woven through the book the love letters of John Harris - the 'station bomber', awaiting execution on Pretoria's death row. In combination, these paint an often harrowing and heart-breaking, but brilliant picture of South Africa. -- Cover, p. [4].
Book Synopsis Journey to Eternity by : Eric Hewstone Carman
Download or read book Journey to Eternity written by Eric Hewstone Carman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Apartheid written by Janet Levine and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government’s brutal system of repression from a rare perspective—that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it. With candor and courage, Levine skillfully interweaves her personal story of a privileged white citizen’s growing awareness of the evils of apartheid with a moving account of the increasing violence in and radical polarization of South Africa. Inside Apartheid brings to life both the unsurpassed physical beauty and the institutionalized brutality of the country Levine loves so deeply. We accompany her on a daring trip to the devastated black township of Soweto immediately following the unrest in 1976. There she visits the home of a “colored” family with no way out of apartheid induced poverty. On a journey through the “black” homelands where Levine discovers firsthand the horrifying evidence of the long-term genocide of three million people. As a student activist, as a journalist, and as an elected member of the Johannesburg City Council, Levine openly attacked the government’s policies in hundreds of speeches and articles, led election campaigns for one of her mentors, member of Parliament Helen Suzman, and was associated with Steve Biko and other less internationally famous but equally important South African figures. Levine was a founding member of the first black taxi co-operative in South Africa, and instrumental in having hundreds of illegally fired black workers reinstated with back pay after the Johannesburg strikes of 1980. We feel Levine’s pain when she finally asks soul-searching questions about the effectiveness of being a white activist. Inside Apartheid, with such honest witness-bearing, may be her most important act of all.
Download or read book Fault Lines written by David Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling story told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. 24 photos.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Rubicon by : Eric de la Harpe
Download or read book Crossing the Rubicon written by Eric de la Harpe and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been experienced. Some has been forgiven. Nothing has been forgotten. This ever-changing story is a journey of discovery from beginning to end. Seen through the eyes of a white South African, it reveals a period of rapid change and the following challenges that faced an entire country. Based on real events, this novel relates an untold story in considerable detail. It opens a vivid window into the history of apartheid in South Africa and the role that the late Nelson Mandela played in the lives of ordinary people. "This novel deserves to be widely read… The prose is seductive and the dialogue crackles with personality." Writer's Digest Annual Self-Published Book Awards
Book Synopsis Redeeming the Past by : Michael Lapsley
Download or read book Redeeming the Past written by Michael Lapsley and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, Fr. Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest and monastic from New Zealand, exiled to Zimbabwe because of his anti-apartheid work in South Africa, opened a package and was immediately struck by the blast of an explosion. The bomb suspected to be the work of the apartheid-era South African secret police blasted away both his hands and one of his eyes. His memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, backing up to recount the journey that led him there particularly his rising awareness of the radical social implications of the gospel and his identification with the liberation struggle and then the subsequent journey of the last two decades. Returning to South Africa, Lapsley saw a whole nation damaged by the apartheid era. So he discovered his new vocation to become a wounded healer, drawing on his own experience to promote the healing of other victims of violence and trauma.
Book Synopsis Journey Into Apartheid by : Robert George Crawford
Download or read book Journey Into Apartheid written by Robert George Crawford and published by Epworth Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born a Crime written by Trevor Noah and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Download or read book Under Our Skin written by Donald McRae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don McRae grew up in a South Africa where his father would call the black men he met 'boy' and where his mother insisted that their black servants used tin mugs, plates and cutlery as they ate the family's left-over food in the backyard of their grand suburban property. The McRaes, like so many white people, seemed oblivious to the violent injustices of apartheid. As the author grew up, the political differences between father and son widened and when Don refused to join up for National Service, risking imprisonment or exile overseas, the two were torn apart. It wasn't until years later that the author discovered that the father with whom he had fought so bitterly had later in his life transformed himself into a political hero. Risking everything one dark and rainy night Ian McRae travelled secretly into the black township of Soweto to meet members of Nelson Mandela's then banned African National Congress to discuss ways to bring power to black South Africa. He had no political ambitions; he was just a man trying to replace the worst in himself with something better. Under Our Skinis a memoir of these tumultuous years in South Africa's history, as told through the author's family story. It offers an intimate and penetrating perspective on life under apartheid, and tells a story of courage and fear, hope and desolation and love and pain, especially between a father and his son.
Book Synopsis Perspectives of Apartheid South Africa by : Benjamin Scott
Download or read book Perspectives of Apartheid South Africa written by Benjamin Scott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perspectives of Apartheid South Africa: One Man's Journey" is an amalgam of self-introspective reflections and history, including interviews with South African heads of state. This unique narrative offers a personal glimpse into author Benjamin Scott's travels to the continent, first in 1986 as a spectator traveling with coaches for the 1988 U.S. Olympic team and, then, in 1990. On the latter trip, undertaken at the behest of the South African government, he hoped to establish a liaison between African-American and South African entrepreneurs. His goal was to galvanize a country which he believed could, potentially, provide an economic blueprint for South Africa and the world. A member of the Defense Department, armed with Q clearance, he hoped that his objective could be accomplished most effectively through open debate, conceptualization, and mutual cooperation between the then ruling White minority and the disenfranchised Black majority. Basic necessities, adequate education, healthcare, and housing were woefully lacking. Such deprivation was the product of fear. Ben could have been a prime target, himself; but armed with the power of faith in the South African people and the diplomatic skills to turn swords into ideas, he witnessed hatred and misconception transform into receptiveness and compromise. Though his efforts at home in the United States did not bear fruit, his ultimate fulfillment came in striving to improve conditions in South Africa, a country he deeply believed in and loved.
Book Synopsis Every Step of the Way by : Michael Morris
Download or read book Every Step of the Way written by Michael Morris and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Step of the Way celebrates the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election but also seeks to widen and promote a conversation about South Africa's contested pasts.