Student comrade prisoner spy : a memoir / Bridget Hilton-Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilton-Barber, Bridget.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hilton-Barber, Bridget.

Authors, South African--21st century--Biography.

Authors, South African.

Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.

Anti-apartheid movements.

Anti-apartheid activists.

South Africa.

Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Biography.

South Africa--History--1961-1994.

History.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

246 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2016.

Summary:

When Bridget Hilton-Barber got on a train to Grahamstown in 1982 to study journalism at Rhodes University, she had no idea of the brutal drama that would unfold. A rebellious young woman, she became politically involved in anti-apartheid organisations and was caught up in the massive resistance and repression sweeping the Eastern Cape at the time. She ended up spending three months in detention without trial, and after her release discovered she had been betrayed by one of her best friends, Olivia Forsyth, who was a spy for the South African security police. Thirty years later, a horrific flashback triggers Bridgets journey back to the Eastern Cape to see if she can forgive her betrayer and finally let go of the extraordinary violence she encountered in the final days of apartheid. This is her powerful story.

Contents:

Part one: Burning woman. Train to Rhodes ; City of Saints ; Meeting Olivia ; The fruit basket ; Waiting for the breeze ; Heartbreak in the time of the struggle ; Carrie Street ; Burning woman ; The Cradock Four ; National madness ; Olive's farewell ; Jazz and violence ; Alexandria police station ; North End ; Pak jou goed ; Fort Glamorgan ; Spyker ; Knitting ; Uncertain future

Part two: Transitions. Uncomfortably numb ; Champagne and freedom ; Truth and reconciliation ; Olivia receding

Part three: The road of broken memory. Crash, 2015 ; Liberating the ghosts ; On the road ; Aloes in the cold ; Photographs and memories ; Sequelae ; Choices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781770228009

1770228004

OCLC:

963934161