Doing Life with Mandela

Doing Life with Mandela by Christo Brand. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781782197430.

Pub Date: 2014-03-03 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd Christo Brand was a South African farm boy. born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superiority for whites Nelson Mandela. . also raised in a rural village. was the black son of a tribal chief. He trained as a lawyer to take up the fight against apartheid on behalf of a whole nation. Their opposing worlds collided when Christo. a raw recruit from the countrys prison service. was sent to Robben Island to guard the notoriously dangerous terrorists there. Mandela was their undisputed leader. The two of them. a boy of 18 and a long-suffering freedom fighter then aged 60. could well have become bitter enemies. Instead. they formed an extraordinary friendship through small human kindnesses. Christo. a gentle young man who valued ordinary de...