Truth is a strange fruit
Subtitle: a personal journey through the apartheid war
By: David Beresford
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781770099029
Subjects: Politics and government; Journalists; South Africa; Anecdotes; South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Biography
Description: Twice voted Britain's top foreign correspondent, David Beresford has produced a 'word picture' of South Africa's Apartheid War. Borrowing from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and plundering his own journalism, he gives his 'truth' of the apartheid years. He has woven through the book the love letters of John Harris - the 'station bomber', awaiting execution on Pretoria's death row. In combination, these paint an often harrowing and heart-breaking, but brilliant picture of South Africa. -- Cover, p. [4].