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The Trouble Maker - Michael Scott and His Lonely Struggle Against Injustice (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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The Trouble Maker - Michael Scott and His Lonely Struggle Against Injustice (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Loot Price R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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Fiercely driven, passionately idealistic and secretly tormented,
the British priest Michael Scott was a key figure in the struggles
against apartheid, colonialism and, later, nuclear weapons. His
activities during his ministry in South Africa in the late 1940s
and early 1950s led to his being imprisoned and banned by the
apartheid regime, whose attempts to annexe South West Africa (now
Namibia) he was instrumental in frustrating. His fervent - some
would say quixotic - campaigning fervour also led to his
deportation from India and to three prison sentences in Britain.
Even is his lifetime Scott was a mysterious and paradoxical figure:
an ordained priest who worked, briefly, as an agent of the
Communist Party, an admirer of Gandhi who trained as a rear gunner
in the RAF, a modest orator who once held a committee of the United
Nations spellbound. Unlike Trevor Huddleston and Canon John
Collins, both of whom regarded him as their inspiration, he was
accorded little honour by the Church of England, perhaps because he
so resolutely insisted on practicing what his superiors were
content to preach. Although Scott was loved and admired by all
those he sought to help and by those who supported him - he gave
away such worldly goods as came his way with almost reckless
abandon - his friends and fellow campaigners were often frustrated
by his apparent determination to keep them at arms' length. It was
only as he lay dying that he could bring himself to admit to his
oldest friend and mentor that his personal life had been blighted
by the abuse he suffered as a child.
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