Doing life with Mandela
my prisoner, my friend
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Author
Contributions
- Jones, Barbara, 1944 November 29- - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa
Language
English
Word Count
67,750 words, Guess
Page Count
271 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedoinglifewithman0000bran_p7m1
- ISBN-101868426084
- ISBN-139781868426089
- OCLC Control Number876568129
- Open LibraryOL38570122M
Classifications
- DDC968.064092
- LCCDT1974 .B74 2014
Description
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.
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