xvii + 253pp. Hardcover binding, silver lettering to spine and front board. With several monochrome portraits of prominent ANC leaders including the author. Condition: Very good. Slight rubbing to boards and spine, slight and superficial score marks to rear board. Internally clean and clear. Solidly bound.
Inscribed by the author.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj: Maharaj was a political activist and member of the then banned South African Communist Party, who worked in a clandestine manner on anti-apartheid activities with Nelson Mandela. In July 1964, Maharaj was arrested in Johannesburg, charged and convicted with four others, including Laloo Chiba and Wilton Mkwayi on charges of sabotage in the little Rivonia Trial, and was imprisoned on Robben Island with Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other revolutionary prisoners. In prison he secretly transcribed parts of Mandela's memoir Long Walk to Freedom and smuggled it out of the prison in 1976.
During his time in prison, Maharaj completed a BAdmin, an MBA and the second year of a BSc degree before his release on 8 December 1976. After being released from the Robben Island prison in 1976, Maharaj was deployed by the ANC to Zambia in 1977. He was elected to the national executive committee of the ANC in 1985 as the first non-African member. From 1988 to 1990 Maharaj worked underground in South Africa as part of the ANC's Operation Vula, which was a project to infiltrate the ANC's top leaders back into South Africa. During this time Maharaj worked with Schabir Shaik's two brothers, Yunis Shaik and Moe Shaik, also members of the ANC. Maharaj reported to the then ANC intelligence chief Jacob Zuma.
Size: 4to (25 x 18,6cm)
Cape Town: Zebra/Robben Island Museum, 2001
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 4to
