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Shades of difference : Mac Maharaj and the struggle for South Africa / Padraig O'Malley.
Van Pelt Library DT1949.M33 O43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Malley, Padraig
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maharaj, Mac.
- African National Congress.
- Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Biography.
- Anti-apartheid activists.
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Anti-apartheid movements.
- Political prisoners--South Africa--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Race relations.
- History.
- South Africa.
- East Indians--South Africa--Biography.
- East Indians.
- African National Congress--Biography.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978.
- Politics and government.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989.
- South Africa--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 648 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Yok : Viking, 2007.
- Summary:
- "Mac put the struggle for the freedom of South Africa above everything in his life. In the pursuit of that cause he became a legend for the torture he had been subjected to by the apartheid state, the risks he undertook and the activities he engaged in, and his popping up in the most unlikely places in the most unlikely disguises, as well as his uncanny ability to outmaneuver the enemy. Were it not for the selflessness of so many comrades like him, our efforts would not have come to fruition. In every war of liberation the foot soldiers are the generals. But Mac is someone special....
- "I respect Mac, and I love him, I call him Ngquphephe, after a one-eyed hero in a Xhosa folktale. O'Malley does my Ngquphephe proud. And I am proud of O'Malley too for the extraordinary book he has written for us. He, like us in the struggle, has persevered, and he, like us, has triumphed."
- Contents:
- Childhood and youth
- Durban days
- London days
- GDR days
- Going home
- Detention and torture
- Little Rivonia
- Robben island
- Banned in Durban
- Lusaka and London
- Vula: getting started
- Home again
- Vula: conflict in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN)
- Mandela
- Out of South Africa
- Transitions
- Vula unravels
- Vula on trial
- Into the new South Africa
- Back in the cold
- Family: struggle and damage
- Hush! apartheid thoughts of a different kind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [613]-628) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0670852333
- 9780670852338
- OCLC:
- 70668852
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