Description: In addition to extensive background essays, it includes formal documents, underground and ephemeral materials, and statements written in exile or in Robben Island prison that have not previously been published.
Review Quotes:
"[This] fifth volume is an invaluable addition. It ignites vivid flashes of memory. --from the Foreword by Nelson Mandela An invaluable and matchless source of evidence for scholars analyzing South Africa's sociopolitical history. --Choice The overthrow of apartheid in South Africa permits an interpretive change in the thrust of African resistance politics by the editors and authors of this invaluable documentary history. --Foreign Affairs An enduring resource for historians of South Africa, scholars interested in revolutionary thought and practice, and students concerned with the interplay between violent and nonviolent strategies for social change. --Africa Today A book that helps us forge a common national story. --Sunday Independent (Johannesburg) [The authors'] feat [is] of such distinction that it is hard to call to mind a single parallel or precedent. --Times Literary Supplement"--