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Robben Island
Robben Island – best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years – has been a place of harshness and brutality; its history steeped in the suffering of those banished there. Yet it has also become a universal symbol of hope, forgiveness, and triumph. With a storyteller’s sensibility, combined with rigorous research, Charlene Smith charts the evolution of the Island’s political and social history, from mail station, place of exile, and military defence post to maximum security prison and World Heritage Site. Fully revised, this new edition of Robben Island provides absorbing accounts of daring escapes, maritime disasters, lepers ostracized from mainland s...
My Life Adventures
Born in the late 70's the author narrates a story about humble beginnings and beating out the odds to survive the hostile reality of living in an African village and moving to live in the city where his life begins to unravel the sinister behaviours of city lifestyles and surviving the temptations of the city and political life at the same time leaving a trail of a positive impact in the lives of the vulnerable, making sacrifices for change in his life and people in his country, In the process surviving attacks from the government agents and escaping to seek political asylum in the UK .
MY LIFE ADVENTURES
Born in the late 70's, the author narrates a story about humble beginnings and beating out the odds to survive the hostile reality of living in an African village and moving to live in the city where his life begins to unravel the sinister behaviours of city lifestyles and surviving temptations of the city and political life, at the same time leaving a trail of a positive impact in the lives of the vulnerable, making sacrifices for change in his life and people in his country, in the process of surviving attacks from the government agents and escaping to seek political asylum in the UK.
The Bantu, Past and Present; an Ethnographical and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa
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Mandela
The measure of a politician is not in his or her words; spin doctors take care of those. It is in what they do to improve the lives of their people. A successful lawyer, Nelson Mandela sacrificed career, family and freedom to pursue an extravagant ideal: a non-racist, non-sexist future for a nation apparently determined to remain divided. At his release, after almost three decades in jail, he could have pursued narrow interests; the world would have supported him. Instead he publicly embraced reconciliation and social justice. Nelson Mandela was determined to free not just black South Africans, but all South Africans, from prejudice. And it was in daring to do the unexpected, in weathering criticism from friends, in reaching out to enemies and in acknowledging the most humble that his greatness was revealed.
Robben Island
Far-reaching political changes in South Africa have re-ignited much interest in Robben Island, particularly as the South African President, Nelson Mandela, was imprisoned there for so long. This is an informative guide to one of the most controversial places in the country. Besides covering its political history, the book also discusses Robben Island as a key naval and military base during World War II, its environment, flora and fauna, the Xhosa chiefs interred on the island in the 19th century, the lives of the Robben warders, its shipwrecks, escapes and many tourist attractions.
Mandela
Mandela traces the life and work of South Africa's first democratically elected president. Beginning with his early years in a tiny village in the Transkei, the book follows him to Johannesburg, and his studies and involvement with the liberation movement. It describes Mandela's evolution as a politician from his leadership of the ANC Youth League, through the grim years of imprisonment on Robben Island, to the delicate talks that preceded his release from prison, and the complicated and often tumultuous negotiations that culminated in April 1994, with the first democratic election. The book then examines his relationship with his successor, Thabo Mbeki, before concluding with the tragic dea...
