Kader Asmal: Politics in My Blood - Softcover

Hadland, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770099034 ISBN 13: 9781770099036

Publisher: Jacana Media, 2011

Synopsis

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his beginnings as the son of a small-town shopkeeper in Natal through his exile in the UK and his rise to Cabinet minister under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. Honoring Asmal’s lifelong dedication to freedom, equality, and justice—ideals enshrined in the country’s Bill of Rights, which he played a major part in writing—this memoir is also the story of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to freedom and democracy.

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About the Author:

Adrian Hadland is a former foreign correspondent, a columnist, and a political editor with more than 15 years of experience. He has served on the South African Press Ombudsman’s Appeal Panel and has consulted for both the United Nations and the World Bank. He is the author of Advertising in the News: Paid-for Content and the South African Print Media and Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy, and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa.

Review:

'Of how many others can it be said that they remained so faithful in power to the principles they enunciated in opposition?' - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Jacana Media
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1770099034
• ISBN 13: 9781770099036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352