Dimensions
128 x 197 x 23mm
Three Families and the Price of Freedom in South Africa.
In the quiet Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, one July afternoon in 1963, security police moved in on a farmhouse thought to be used by ANC activists. To their surprise they found key leaders like Walter Sisulu at home, and the documentation to damn Nelson Mandela and many others. But when they shouldered their way into the house that day, they not only set back for a generation the movement against apartheid but also started South Africa on a long road of police-state repression that lasted nearly 30 years until Mandela's release.
Here Glenn Frankel tells the story of those forced to live in the long shadow of the Rivonia Raid, in particular those white men and women wrenched abruptly from "respectable" radicalism to "terrorist" status. Many of them Jewish, they were doubly excluded when a white nation now openly at war against a black majority whose plight they could have ignored but chose to share.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
