Nelson Mandela

In the absence of any black people around her while she was growing up in Scotland, JK invented fantasy relationships with well-known black people from around the world such as Nelson Mandela , Ella Fitzgerald

The school is located near the South African border; it was attended by the sons of Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela during Apartheid. Nadine Gordimer 's son Hugo Cassirer was also a student there. Anna...

From 1961 the lawyer Joe Slovo became deeply involved in a campaign of violent sabotage against the South African apartheid government. He and Nelson Mandelabecame the initial high command for the new army—Umkhonto we Sizwe

In 1987, some years after Ruth First was killed, Joe married Helena Dolny , a woman with two children. At the crest of his life's work, in mid-August 1991 he informed his daughters...

DL 's parents knew famous political figures like Nelson and Winnie Mandela , Ruth First , Joe Slovo , and Helen Joseph . Deborah's sister had Joseph as namesake-godmother,, while Deborah was...

H. Jack Geiger wrote in the New York Times: Three themes dominate in this painful (and somewhat disjointed) record: secrecy, perceived abandonment and the rage it engenders, and ambivalence. For him its moving moment...

This book's reception was polarized along political lines. The Soweto riots (which began three years before this novel appeared) were a factor when it was banned. When the ban was lifted in 1980, NG was...

A key figure in it is Nelson Mandela , then in prison.

Walder discerned in it a coded homage to George Bizos and Bram Fischer , who defended Nelson Mandela .Gillian Slovo , who grew up in these circles, recognized the family: their heroism and their...

This book maintains DM 's habit of noticing the seldom noticed: here the culture of poor whites, publicly parading with appeals for work, most of them drunk or stoned. The amount of information and cogitation...

CH published Manne: aux Mandelstams aux Mandelas, a text about three disparate people linked by the opening of their surnames: South African politicians Winnie and Nelson Mandela , and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam .

RC published Diana : The Portrait, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela and an introduction by Lady Sarah McCorquodale . It is authorized by the estate of the late princess and by the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund

RC planned a book-length study or biography of Nelson Mandela (similar to that of Princess Diana ), but instead she contributed interviews to Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Mac Maharaj and A. M. Kathrada ...

The bicycle trip through Africa (four months that took her from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia to Zimbabwe) that turned out to be an investigation into AIDS was first...