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After Raymond Suttner's arrest in 1975, he was subjected to torture, solitary confinement and long periods in jail. This book includes letters smuggled out of jail and provides insights into the psychological effects of confinement.
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In 1975, in apartheid-torn South Africa, Raymond Suttner, a young white "idealistic revolutionary" was arrested for his political activities, one of which was publishing an illegal antiapartheid pamphlet. These activities led to years of imprisonment and times of torture and intimidation. Some two decades later, as a member of the African National Congress's executive committee, Suttner decided to make his struggles, both personal and political, public. Inside Apartheid's Prison: Notes and Letters of Struggle is a kind of epistolary memoir, with Suttner's letters home a testimony to his ordeals and the strength with which he faced them.
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For his active resistance to apartheid terrorism, law professor Suttner spent years in prison, under house arrest, and on the run in the 1970s and 1980s. First arrested when he was 29, he was beaten, tortured with electric shock, and held in solitary confinement because of his work with the banned ANC. To the police, he was especially hated as a white traitor, a Jew, a Communist. There have been several accounts of political prisoners on Robben Island, including stirring books by Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada, but this is one of the few by a white activist. Neither self-righteous nor heroic, Suttner tells his story in a quiet narrative, interspersed with extracts from his censored prison letters home. There may be too many letters, but they bring you close to the politics ("I can't simply opt out. . . . This alternative is not open to black people") as well as the daily detail. Most moving is his love for the tiny parakeet he was finally allowed to keep as a pet, his "Jail Bird." Hazel Rochman
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