The New York African Group Announcement of next Thursday's NYC event
New book on anti-apartheid leaders - meet the author
Thursday, October 17, 2013
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A new book tells the story of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and
wife. They were among the leaders of the war to end apartheid in South
Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants,
they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they
were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they
experienced repression and exile.
Join author and South Africa historian Alan Wieder for a discussion of his new book,
Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid. Weider's earlier writings include
Voices From Capetown
- the oral histories of twenty South African teachers who connected
pedagogy and politics to fight against the apartheid regime. Teaching in
so-called coloured schools, these teachers with the fighting spirit
stressed nonracialism and democracy in their work with students.
Although their lives were deeply affected by apartheid, it never stole
their hearts, minds or souls. Their work helped lead to the election of
Nelson Mandela as the first democratic leader South Africa in 1994.
Wieder is an oral historian who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is
distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and
has also taught at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch
University in South Africa. In the last ten years he has published two
books and numerous articles on South Africans who fought against the
apartheid regime.
This book is a gripping social history, a love song to the
revolution, and a passionate and enlightening portrait of a partnership,
a love-affair, and two extraordinary activists who cast their fates
with the dreams of people everywhere for justice and freedom.
—Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn
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