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When They Came for Me - The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner (Paperback)
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When They Came for Me - The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner (Paperback)
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Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it
a vital historical document of its time and for our own. In 1969,
while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested
for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually
deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote
secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival.
Those writings inform this exquisitely written book in which the
author reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, the
poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his ordeal, and its
impact. This sense of hope through which he transformed his life
guides his continuing work as a psychotherapist and his focus on
the rehabilitation of others. "[T]hetale of an ordinary young man
swept one day from his life into hell, testimony to the wickedness
a political system let loose in its agents and, above all, an
intimate account of how a man became a healer."-Jonny Steinberg,
Oxford University From the introduction: I was supposed to be a man
by the time I turned 21, by anyone's reckoning. By the apartheid
regime's reckoning, I was also old enough to be tortured. Looking
back, I can recognize the boy I was. The eldest of my grandchildren
is now approaching this age, and I would never want to see her or
the others - or indeed anyone else - having to face any such
ordeal. At the time my home was in Johannesburg, only some thirty
miles from Pretoria, where I was thrown into a world that few would
believe existed, populated by creatures from the darkest places,
creatures of the night, some in uniform. I was there for fifty-five
days, and never went home again.
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