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Young man with a red tie: A memoir of Mandela and the failed revolution, 1960-63
Bob Hepple
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Paperback. It is November 1963. The white police state has captured almost all the underground leaders of the struggle against apartheid, including Nelson Mandela, and put them on trial on charges that carry the death penalty. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
By November of 1963, the white police state of South Africa had managed to capture nearly all of the underground leaders of the antiapartheid movement—including Nelson Mandela—and had put them on trial on charges that carried the death penalty. Among the arrested was Bob Hepple, a 29-year-old lawyer who would subsequently escape to the neighboring British Protectorate of Bechuanaland. In this memoir of these dramatic events, Hepple throws fresh light on the character of Mandela and other leaders and on the controversies surrounding the emergence of the South African Communist Party and its “secret” resolution in December 1960 to begin the armed freedom struggle. There is a firsthand account of Mandela’s period as the ""Black Pimpernel,"" his 1962 trial for incitement, and of the Rivonia raid in 1963. Hepple also gives a graphic account of the psychological effects of interrogation in solitary detention without trial, and of the difficult personal choices he had to make. The story is told against the background of the experiences of his childhood and youth in a racist society, experiences that led him—described by a pro-government newspaper as “a young man with a red tie”—to play a role as a student activist against racial segregation in the universities, an adviser and assistant to the virtually illegal multiracial trade unions, a lawyer defending political victims of the police state, and to a lifetime fighting for human rights.
Product Details
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781431407842
SKU
V9781431407842
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About Bob Hepple
Bob Hepple is a former South African student leader and member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. He participated in the underground struggle against apartheid and acted as the lawyer for Nelson Mandela and other antiapartheid leaders. He fled South Africa to England before the Rivonia trial of 1963. He is an international expert and activist in the fields of labor law, equality, and human rights, and an emeritus master of Clare College and emeritus professor of law in the University of Cambridge. He is also a Queen’s Counsel and a fellow of the British Academy.
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