A Pretoria boy : the story of South Africa's 'public enemy number one' / Peter Hain.
By: Hain, Peter, Lord Hain [author.]
.Publisher: London : Icon, 2021Description: xviii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white and colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785787638.Subject(s): Hain, Peter, Lord Hain, 1950- | Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography | Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 | South Africa -- History -- 1994- | South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- | South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994DDC classification: 920 Summary: "Peter Hain - famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle - has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his childhood home of South Africa. This is the story of that extraordinary journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes his anti-apartheid parents' arrest and harassment in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close white family friend, and enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations he became 'Public Enemy Number One' in the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a bomb. In 2017-18 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by his government 'deep throat', and likely influenced Zuma's resignation. Hain ends by exhorting South Africa to reincarnate Nelson Mandela's vision and integrity for the future."-- Taken from book-cover.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 HAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019317 |
"Peter Hain - famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle - has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his childhood home of South Africa. This is the story of that extraordinary journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes his anti-apartheid parents' arrest and harassment in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close white family friend, and enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations he became 'Public Enemy Number One' in the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a bomb. In 2017-18 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by his government 'deep throat', and likely influenced Zuma's resignation. Hain ends by exhorting South Africa to reincarnate Nelson Mandela's vision and integrity for the future."-- Taken from book-cover.