A Pretoria Boy

The Story of South Africa's 'Public Enemy Number One'

A Pretoria Boy
Peter Hain
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Hardback
h234 x 153mm - 368pg
9 Sep 2021 UK
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9781785787638
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Peter Hain has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his native South Africa. This is the story of that extraordinary journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes his anti-apartheid parents' arrest and harassment in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close white family friend, and enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations he became ' Public Enemy Number One' in the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a bomb. He used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in President Jacob Zuma' s administration, informed by his government ' deep throat' , and likely influenced Zuma' s resignation. Hain ends by exhorting South Africa to reincarnate Nelson Mandela' s vision and integrity for the future.
' A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner. ' -- Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence ' A tour de force over an extraordinary half century of campaigning for justice. ' -- Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief ' Peter' s gripping story and his passionate activism resonates with me over our common (African) childhood and exile in Britain' -- Natasha Kaplinsky, broadcaster
Peter Hain was brought up in South Africa. Forced into exile, he became a British anti-apartheid leader. Labour MP for Neath 1991-2015, he served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown' s governments for twelve years, seven of those in the Cabinet.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785787638
Published: 9 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Icon Books
Publisher: Icon Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 368

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