Hardcover: 500 pagesPublisher: jonathan Cape (1994)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0224035460ISBN-13: 978-0224035460Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches

The Rift

Bernstein, Hilda

Biographies & Memoirs

RANDOM HOUSE UK

No. 46-Steve Biko

International Defense & Aid Fund

Death is part of the process

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Sinclair Browne

Physical description; 72p,(16)p of plates : ill., ports ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Women, Negro - Social conditions. Women, Black - South Africa.

For their triumphs and for their tears: Conditions and resistance of women in apartheid South Africa

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

International Defence and Aid Fund

Steve Biko was the forty sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. And for the first time, the inquest revealed full and horrifying details of how political detainees are treated. What exactly happened to Biko in room 619 is known only to his interrogators. But from a close reading of the inquest proceedings, given in this book, it is possible to reconstruct the events and identify the likely culprits. The inquest verdict exonerated the police, shocking the world but demonstrating once again the inherently ruthless and oppressive nature of the Apartheid state.

No. 46- Steve Biko

International Defence & Aid Fund

This historic and educational book: For Their Triumphs and for Their Tears Women in Apartheid South Africa , it explains how the oppression and exploitation of the majority of South African women--as women, as workers and above all as black people--is an integral part of the apartheid system.

For Their Triumphs and for Their Tears Women in Apartheid South Africa

Africa Fund

London, Persephone (2004) 3rd Edition, 1st printing. Slightest rubbing to covers, as new trade paperback with paper dustjacket. UNREAD, uncracked. Clean, tight and straight. Smoke and pet free premises. B137

The World That Was Ours (Persephone Classics)

Historical

Persephone Books Ltd.

“It reads like a thriller page after page. . . . The loveliest of Hilda Bernstein’s works about the ugliest of times.”—Albie Sachs, The Independent
“Were it not for ordinary heroes like the Bernsteins, South Africa would not be free today.”—Guardian
It was 1963 in South Africa during Apartheid when Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was arrested, along with Nelson Mandela and fifteen other leaders of the African National Congress. They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to “ferment violent revolution.” Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the “Rivonia Trial” and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime.
There was a long night ahead. We are unable to read. We listen all the time, listen for the sound of a car in anticipation that the police will come. If he is in the hands of the police, surely they will bring him to the house to search; they always raid after an arrest.
Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006) lived in London, but in 1933 moved to South Africa where she married Lionel Bernstein. She was elected as a Communist to the Johannesburg City Council; helped found the multiracial Federation of South African Women; and worked closely with the African National Congress’ Women’s League in opposition to apartheid.

The World That Was Ours

Persephone Books

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