Free Mind

Sahm Venter is a writer, an editor, and a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg who has worked for both South African and international media since 1981.

"No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a cold be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. - John Donne, Meditation XVII (Victor Hugo makes a donkey meditate and apostrophize thus:) My brother, man if you would know the truth, We both are by the same dull walls shut in; The gate is massive and the dungeon strong. But you look through the keyhole at beyond, And call this knowledge; yet have not at hand The key wherein to turn the fatal lock. Ideas grow quickly when watered by the blood of martyrs. - Guiseppe Mazzini"

• Foreword by Laloo 'Isu' Chiba; Preface; Part One:; Life Means Life (1964 to 1970); Part Two:; A New Dispensation (1971 to 1975); Part Three:; A Wind of Change (1976 to 1981); Part Four:; Freedom is Coming (1982 to 1989).