The Human Spirit: Apartheid's Unheralded Heroes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781452033075)

Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run democracy are still being revealed. Some individuals toiled publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to improve the welfare of the Black and Coloured populations that had been so neglected. Nelson Mandela was still in prison; clean water and sanitation barely existed; AIDS was beginning to orphan an entire generation. Meanwhile a white, Jewish, middle class woman, joined with Tutu, Millie, Ivy, Zora and other concerned Black women, respectfully called Mamas, to help those most in need, often being beaten and arrested by white security police. This book tells the story of these women and others who have spent their adult lives making South Africa a better place for those who were the country's most disadvantaged.

Author: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
ISBN-10: 1452033072
ISBN-13: 9781452033075
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d