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Doing Life with Mandela

von Christo Brand, Barbara Jones

Biography History Non-Fiction

ISBN

9781868426089

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N/A

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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Nelson Mandela apartheid South Africa political prisoners friendship biography memoir historical racial equality social justice prison life Robben Island 20th century history cultural differences human rights political history African history reconciliation personal transformation non-fiction inspirational cross-cultural relationships anti-apartheid movement legal history social change historical figures leadership activism racial reconciliation personal growth life stories.

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Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superiority for whites. Nelson Mandela, also raised in a rural village, was the black son of a tribal chief. He trained as a lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo, a raw recruit from the country's prison service, was sent to Robben Island to guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists there. Mandela was their undisputed leader. The two of them, a boy of 18 and a long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60, could well have become bitter enemies. Instead, they formed an extraordinary friendship through small human kindnesses.