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Mandela : my prisoner, my friend / Christo Brand with Barbara Jones.

Title
Mandela : my prisoner, my friend / Christo Brand with Barbara Jones.
Author
Brand, Christo
Publication
  • London : John Blake, 2014.
  • London John Blake, 2014.
  • ©2014.

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Jones, Barbara
Description
xv, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
  • Brand, Christo
  • African National Congress
  • Political prisoners > South Africa > Biography
  • South Africa > Politics and government
  • South Africa > Race relations
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781782199137 (paperback)
  • 1782199136 (paperback)
OCLC
873069660
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library