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From Sharpville to Rivonia, Paperback / softback Book

From Sharpville to Rivonia Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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1959 was the year James Currey arrived in South Africa and found a nation in crisis.

Hopes of change rose and foundered over the next five years.

Letters and vivid conversations capture the excitement of daily life and political drama. The extra-parliamentary opposition had used non-violent means of protest since 1952, but on 21 March 1960 the police shot and killed 69 peaceful protesters in Sharpeville.

It was a turning point. In March 1960 some 35,000 Africans protested on Cape Town and the police responded with further savagery.

Shortly after Randolph Vigne, Neville Rubin, Tim Holmes and James Currey founded The New African a radical review of politics and the arts.

The intense comings and goings of a small magazine served as effective cover for acts of sabotage. In July 1964 Randolph Vigne appealed to Clare and James to enable him escape.

Clare had no hesitation; 'Randolph and Gillian are our friends', she said. James used his British passport, to buy a ticket on a Norwegian freighter so that Vigne could travel to Montreal.

Two days later Clare and James flew out of Johannesburg.

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