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White paper, white ink (Paperback)
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White paper, white ink (Paperback)
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Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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The ultimate page-turner. Imagine a crash course in South African
history presented as a page turning, Shawshank Redemption-like,
jail house-rock prison thriller. Imagine a book, the Pure white
book, written in closely guarded code, to all extents invisible,
because it is written with white ink on pure white pages. A book
that no one can see or hold in their hands, which has been passed
down orally by gangs in South African prisons, from generation to
generation. Welcome to Picketberg Prison and to the historic moment
in time when the gang-lord keepers of the code, for their own
reasons, decide to publish the entire Pure white book. Two
prisoners, neither of them gangsters, find themselves drawn into
this project as ghost-writers. They are Sipho Madini - a street kid
and gifted writer and poet - wrongfully imprisoned for burglary.
And Don February, in his late sixties, who grew up in District 6 as
a young gangster but who has since distanced himself from a
gangster identity. Don, who did time on Robben Island in the 1970s,
when it was still called "the University", has made it his mission
to transform this backwater prison into a place of higher learning.
Even the gangsters begin to show interest in Don's weekly
discussion groups which deal with the themes of colonisation,
dispossession and slavery. Through this process they begin to
interrogate their own gang histories, inscribed on their bodies in
the form of tattoos, and their own stories begin to unfold and
weave in ways they never could have predicted. This is the story of
two men's efforts not only to survive harsh prison conditions but
to bring mental freedom and higher consciousness to the other
inmates, challenging them to ask what the difference is between a
freedom fighter and a common criminal.
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