The leader of South Africa's antiapartheid movement chronicles his life, including his tribal years, his time spent in prison, and his return to lead his people

Product Description: Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile...read more

Product Description: Full color throughout, each spread comes alive with a mix of photographs, illustrations and lively, concise text. Through five sections we follow the stages of his life: the Eastern Cape, Johannesburg, Robben Island, Release and years as President, and Madiba the Celeb – dealing with his iconic status all over the world and the “Madiba Magic” which everyone wants to share in...read more

Product Description: A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment...read more

This concise yet comprehensive book provides a lively, future-oriented narrative introduction to American government and politics. "We the People" presents material with a currency and relevancy that captures the vivid world of real-life politics. In addition, the text challenges readers to think critically; by giving contextual understanding of major concepts and issues, it encourages them to think about the implications for society and themselves. "We the People" delves deeper into the basics than most brief books, and each of the 17 chapters (including 3 policy chapters) concludes with a "New York Times" reading selection and an extensive bibliography. The fifth edition is accompanied by an Online Learning Center that is unsurpassed in American Government courses, as well as free access to PowerWeb (see "Supplements" for details)!

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Product Description: If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adversity...read more

Product Description: A revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the key figures of the African National Congress, described as South Africa’s “most important and most popular, white leader.” As an immigrant from Lithuania, a Jew, a communist, a guerrilla fighter and strategist — and white — few public figures in South Africa were as demonized by the apartheid government as Joe Slovo...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of struggle and uncertainty."—from the PrefaceBorn into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding poverty so familiar to other South African blacks. Instead, her struggle was that of a creative, articulate woman seeking fulfillment and justice in a land that tried to deny her both.The widow of Xhosa writer and historian A.C. Jordan and mother of African National Congress leader Z. Pallo Jordan, she and her family experienced a period of tremendous change in South Africa and also in the United States, where they moved during the 1960s. She discovers similarities in the two countries, including the arrogance of power.Anchored in history and culture, A Life's Mosaic sharply reveals the world and the people of South Africa. As the story of a political exile, it represents the dislocations that have caused universal suffering in the second half of the twentieth century. Phyllis Ntantala discusses the cruelty of racism, the cynicism of political solutions, and the hopes of those who live in both a world of exile and a world of dreams.

Product Description: The voices speaking here represent an extraordinary group of South Africans: those whites - a minority within a minority - who have been struggling against the injustices of apartheid and working in separate ways to prepare their countrymen, black and white, for a just and democratic post-apartheid society...read more

Product Description: A biography of Nelson Mandela, a key figure in world politics today. Told through unique letters and reminiscences from Mandela and his relatives, the author provides a perspective to the man behind the mask.

An anti-apartheid activist, horribly maimed in an assassination attempt, gives a deeply moving account of his long struggle to survive and to heal--physically and psychically

Traces the emergence of the South African resistance movement as seen through the eyes of the author, a legislator working to end the apartheid system and a colleague of Nelson Mandela

Product Description: Book by NORMA KITSON

Chronicles the author's thirty-year struggle against apartheid in South Africa and provides a portrait of those who would sacrifice their lives for their children's future

Covers the life of Winnie Mandela, who married a prominent fighter for racial equality in South Africa and later became a leader in her own right