A Pretoria Boy av Peter Hain

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''A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner.'' Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence''From fighting for Nelson Mandela''s freedom to exposing his betrayal under Jacob Zuma, a 50 year story of constant campaigning.'' Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcasterThe powerful and timely story of Peter Hain''s political life fighting South African apartheid and modern-day corruption.Peter Hain has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his native 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.He used Britis