Tutu: The Authorised Portrait is a celebration of eighty years of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion have touched the lives of millions around the world. Born in Klerksdorp, South Africa, and trained as a teacher because his family could not afford to send him to medical school, Desmond Tutu was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1960. He vigorously opposed apartheid and has dedicated his life to fighting all forms of oppression, advocating non-violence, peaceful reconciliation and social justice for all. This extraordinary book features a biography by legendary South African journalist Allister Sparks, authorised by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and includes over forty interviews conducted by Tutu's daughter Reverend Mpho Tutu with close family, friends, colleagues, comrades and critics. Complemented by an unprecedented collection of images and unpublished artefacts drawn from Tutu's private files, this is a phenomenal story of one man's life-long commitment to the liberation of the oppressed. Includes interviews with Kofi Annan, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President Barack Obama

Tutu: The Authorised Portrait of Desmond Tutu. by Mpho Tutu, Allister Sparks

Allister Sparks

Macmillan

The world has called South Africa's transformation from apartheid to a non-racial democracy a miracle, one that won its two principal figures the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. But behind the public story lies a secret drama that began four years before President F.W. de Klerk released Nelson Mandela from jail in February 1990, and which unfolded in a series of extraordinary secret meetings between government officials and their top political prisoner. It is a story of how members of the Afrikaaners' own secret brotherhood, the Broederbond, came to terms with the need for change and met secretly with the outlawed ANC in an English village over a period of three years. In this book, award-winning South African journalist Allister Sparks tells the full story.

Tomorrow Is Another Country

William Heinemann, Ltd.

History

Africa

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A portrait of South Africa's transition from apartheid to volatile democracy describes the friendship between the Minister of Prisons and Nelson Mandela, the rise of President de Klerk, and the negotiations between the ANC and the government.

Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Tutu: The Authorised Portrait of Desmond Tutu, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Sparks, Allister, Tutu, Mpho (2011) Hardcover

Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jonathan Ball Pub.

The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apart "For those interested in South Africa's past it is enthralling; for those interested in its future it is compulsive." Donald Woods

The mind of South Africa: The story of the rise and fall of apartheid

Jonathan Ball Publishers

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