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Truth Is a Strange Fruit: A Personal Journey Through the Apartheid War
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Truth Is a Strange Fruit: A Personal Journey Through the Apartheid War Paperback - 2011

by David Beresford

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In 1964, Johannesburg's Park Street station was bombed, and the so-called "mad bomber," John Harris, was hanged. A shocking revelation, this account discloses that former Prime Ministers Hendrik Verwoed and John Vorster and the former head of the security police, General Hendrik van den Berg, conspired in a crime that led to an innocent man's execution. It argues that the three most powerful political figures in South Africa at the time were aware that the bomb had been planted and chose not to disarm it in the hopes that it would deliver a blow to the antiapartheid movement. Also investigating the involvement of a Zionist terrorist organization in the Park Street bombing and the role of President Jacob Zuma in the activities of the African National Congress in exile, this history will enlighten anyone interested in the apartheid or in the political workings of South Africa.

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  • Title Truth Is a Strange Fruit: A Personal Journey Through the Apartheid War
  • Author David Beresford
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 193
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jacana Media, South Africa
  • Publication date 2011-05
  • ISBN 9781770099029 / 1770099026
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.75 x 1.2 in (20.96 x 14.61 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists, South Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010511387
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

David Beresford is a correspondent for the Guardian with more than 25 years of experience; he covered the conflicts in Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan and the first Gulf War. He is the author of 10 Men Dead.

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TRUTH IS A STRANGE FRUIT.: A Personal Journey Through The Apartheid War.

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Jacana 2010. 1st edition.. No inscriptions. A Fine copy.. Large format paperback. 0.5kg. A South African, Author moved to the UK in 1974 and joined The Guardian, thereafter covering many major conflicts. He was posted to South Africa in 1984. He paints a picture of the apartheid years, borrowing from The Truth & Reconciliation Commission and his own work. He aims to give the 'truth' of the apartheid years. Woven through the book are the love letters and story of John Harris, the 'station bomber' executed in Pretoria in 1965, to Anne Swersky.
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