A Life for Freedom: The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa

From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow the government by violent revolution," Goldberg was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. The only white man convicted during the infamous Rivonia trial, he played a historic role in

Author: Denis Goldberg
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/18/2016
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780813166469
ISBN10: 0813166462
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- History | Africa | South | Republic of South Africa
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author

Denis Goldberg is founder of the Community H.E.A.R.T. development fund, which is based in Britain and Germany and supports health and education projects in South Africa. From 2002 to 2006, he served as special adviser to the minister of Water Affairs and Forestry in South Africa. He has received numerous awards from several countries, including the Order of Luthuli in 2009, in recognition of his work against apartheid.

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