Govan Mbeki – författare

In the late fifties and early sixties, Govan Mbeki was a central figure in the African National Congress and director of the ANC campaigns from underground. Born of a chief and the daughter of a Methodist minister in the Transkei of South Africa in 1910, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and tireless labor organizer in a lifetime of protest against the government policy of apartheid. Over two decades of imprisonment on Robben Island did not consign him to obscurity. Along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, his name has become a symbol of resistance, not only to the oppressed people of South Africa, but also to the international community who have conferred on him many honors and awards.

With an Introduction by Colin Bundy.Published in association with the UWC Historical and Cultural Centre Project, Govan Mbeki's essays formed part of the political education programme that was developed on Robben Island, the 'university' for its political prisoners,such as those arrested and tried at the Rivonia Trials in 1964.'These prison essays mark a victory in the continuing contest between the pen and the sword'. - Professor Colin Bundy in his IntroductionNorth America: Ohio U Press; Southern Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books