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Helen Suzman : Bright star in a dark chamber

ZA COM RCB-0530
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2014

Part of Reference Books

Renwick, Robin

Mandela : The authorised biography

ZA COM RCB-0974
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Part of Reference Books

Sampson, Anthony

John Vorster Biography [3vE_dMLCKfw]

ZA COM NMPP 2009/57-12-1
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1992-12-23

Part of Rick Stengel Interviews with Nelson Mandela

One of the books Nelson Mandela read in prison was the biography of one of apartheid’s leaders, Prime Minister John Vorster. This story about the book also reveals another of Mr Mandela’s characteristics – that he always tries to “take something out” of a situation or an experience. Things and people are usually neither all bad nor all good. He detested what Vorster stood for as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, but in this conversation he shows that he found something upon which to compliment him.

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla

My Life [:] The Making of an Afrikaner Revolutionary in the South African liberation struggle [:] Bibliography