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Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography by South Africa 's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, and it was first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. [1][2] The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years spent in prison. Under the apartheid government, Mandela was regarded as a terrorist and jailed ...
ISBN. 0-394-58859-2. OCLC. 41354850. Age of Iron is a 1990 novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is among his most popular works and was the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year. [1] In it, he paints a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence.
PR9369.3 .P37. Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there ...
v. t. e. Heloise Ruth First OLG (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti- apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police.
The Suit (short story) " The Suit " is a short story by the South African writer Can Themba. [1] It was first published in 1963 in the inaugural issue of The Classic, [2] a South African literary journal founded by Nat Nakasa and Nadine Gordimer. [3] On publication, the story was banned by the apartheid regime. [4] ".
Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by South African novelist Peter Abrahams. Set in racist South Africa during the lead-up to apartheid, the novel explores the stereotypes and institutions that discriminate against working-class black Africans. According to Nigerian scholar Kolawole Ogungbesan, Mine Boy became "the first African novel written in English ...
OCLC. 60267194. The Smell of Apples is a 1993 debut novel by South African Mark Behr, published in Afrikaans as Die Reuk van Appels then published in 1995 in English. Mark Behr describes the Afrikaner mentality in apartheid South Africa as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy called Marnus, the son of an Army General.
Internal resistance to apartheid. Internal resistance to apartheid. Part of the decolonisation of Africa. Nelson Mandela burns his passbook in 1960 as part of a civil disobedience campaign. Date. 4 June 1948 – 10 May 1994. (45 years, 11 months and 6 days) [note 1] Location. South Africa.