Walter & Albertina Sisulu - Softcover

Sisulu, Elinor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864866399 ISBN 13: 9780864866394

Publisher: David Phillip Pub, 2011

Synopsis

For more than five decades Walter and Albertina Sisulu were at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid. As secretary-general of the ANC, Walter was sentenced to life imprisonment with Nelson Mandela in 1964 and spent 26 years in prison until his release in 1989. While her husband and his colleagues were in jail, Albertina played a crucial role in keeping the ANC alive underground, and in the 1980s was co-President of the United Democratic Front. Their story has been one of persecution, bitter struggle and painful separation. But it is also one of patience, hope and enduring love.

Walter and Albertina Thethiwe were born in small rural villages just a few miles apart in the Eastern Cape hinterland. From these humble beginnings, they would go on to become two of the country's most respected and beloved figures, among its greatest crusaders for human rights and dignity. For over five decades the pair - married in 1944 - were at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid and the injustices it wrought on black South Africans. The story is a moving love story against all odds.

This book is the winner of the prestigious Noma African Literature Award and was a finalist of the Alan Paton Award.

About this title

About the Author:

Educated in Zimbabwe, Senegal and the Netherlands, ELINOR SISULU combines training in history, English literature, development studies and feminist theory with IILO programs of assistance to the ANC, PAC and SWAPO. In 1994, she published an award winning children's book, The Day Gogo Went to Vote. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for the Book and an executive member of the South African Children's Book Forum. She has been instrumental in formulating the proposal for a Children's Literature Network in South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: David Phillip Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0864866399
• ISBN 13: 9780864866394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688