Dayspring is a recollection of C.J. Driver’s South African youth – his childhood as a reverend’s son in Kroonstad and Makhanda preceding his extraordinary student years at the University of Cape Town, during which he edited the student newspaper Varsity and became enmeshed in radical student politics.

With a Foreword by Anthony Sampson Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and struggles in late-twentieth century South Africa.

I first dreamed the dream that begins and ends this sequence of poems a long time ago, when I was still in South Africa and had no intention of leaving. The dream is recorded in a note- book that I still have, but it peters out into another note that says I might one day have sufficient technical skill to make the dream into a poem, although I didn’t have it yet. Of course, I needed to be more grown-up to re-imagine the experience. CJ ‘Jonty’ Driver

CJ (Jonty) Driver has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in education in the UK and overseas, including three headships. In this poignant memoir, he provides a compelling insight into school life, with wisdom gained from a lifetime of learning. "Jonty has written an important book which should be read by all who care about schools. No one else has had such a combined impact on politics, schools and literature. It is a remarkable story." Sir Anthony Seldon, recently retired Master of Wellington College.