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Rick Turner - Choosing to be free (Paperback)
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Rick Turner - Choosing to be free (Paperback)
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Rick Turner was one of South Africa's most original and powerful
thinkers and is remembered today as a remarkable teacher and
activist. For almost ten years, from 1968, when he returned to
South Africa from his studies at the Sorbonne, to 1978, when he was
shot by an unknown assassin, Rick Turner played an important role
in the opposition to apartheid, especially by provoking whites to
expand their vision of what South Africa could be. Believing in the
'necessity of utopian thinking', he wrote a short book, The eye of
the needle (1972), that sought to envision a very different kind of
society. It has become a classic of its kind. For the authorities
Rick Turner was a constant source of annoyance, a threat and
anomaly that had to be dealt with. What was most dangerous about
him was that his life and thought failed to fit within the dominant
narrative of his time. Never a member of the ANC or the Communist
Party or any political party for that matter, he propounded a
vision for the transformation of South Africa that was both
independent and radical. Although he lived a short life, he
nevertheless had a great influence on those around him, including
people like Steve Biko, and had a profound effect on people's
imagining of what was possible. In the end, he became too much for
the apartheid system and was killed. Even today, in the severely
compromised political climate after the end of apartheid, the need
for the kind of idealist vision that Rick Turner lived and died for
is perhaps just as urgent.
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