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The Secret Thread: Personal Journeys Beyond Apartheid(Hidden Histories)

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The Secret Thread is a strand of human history connecting people across barriers created by apartheid. It is a thread that drew people together, forcing them to face painful realities. It runs through the informal settlements, townships, suburbs and bantustans of South Africa, across the deserts and villages of Namibia, and the rural towns and inner cities of Europe. Co-founded by Beyers Naudé in 1964, the Christian Fellowship Trust, a `legally subversive’ organisation, drove a `Trojan Horse’ into the citadel of apartheid theology. The idea of travel is used as a transforming experience, more powerful than indoctrination: ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church and other individuals are exposed to life that questions everything they had been taught about skin colour as a marker of human worth and face contradictions that highlight the inequality and conflict of global injustices. The Secret Thread is a historical reflection on facing the timeless challenges of being human in relation to other humans. It explores the value of solidarity and the redemptive power of taking responsibility for participation in systems that benefit the few no matter the suffering of the many. It affirms the human need to travel and to know our common history, as essential to the pursuit of justice and reconciliation.

Table of Contents:
Illustrations Acronyms Acknowledgements Preface Note on use of language Part 1: Breaking through isolation 1 Isolating a system and supporting people 2 The English and Dutch meet their demons and traitors 3 Seeing beyond apartheid 4 A network of solidarity in a police state Part 2: A State of crisis 5 Safe houses 6 Looking in the mirror 7 Encountering the enemy 8 A struggle on every front 9 Through the looking glass – State of Emergency Part 3: Namibia 10 Namibia: `Hearing the cry of the people’ 11 Namibia: In search of human rights Part 4: Finding solutions 12 Between the battle lines 13 Shaping the vision of a new South Africa 14 Apartheid’s lessons for Europe 15 Breaking barriers, monitoring and mediating Part 5: New struggles 16 Namibia: Life after freedom 17 Foot soldiers in South Africa’s new struggles 18 Extending global solidarity Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Deborah has been involved in research and writing for the last twenty odd years as the Director of iMEDIATE Development Communications with the focus on human rights, children's participation and HIV/AIDS interventions. She is the programme manager, researcher, writer and advocate for inclusive human rights and development. She is Durban based and currently an Advocacy Manager for the Aids Foundation of South Africa; managing the design and development of joint advocacy campaigns with civil society organisations participating in the Sex Rights Africa Network to realise comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) for all. Her involvement with the CFT dates back to 1988, when she was asked by the Anti-Apartheid-Movement (AAM) in London to make a four-month investigative tour of South Africa, to report on the work of the alternative media under the State of Emergency. At the request of Dr Naude, CFT funded the tour so that it could not be linked to the AAM. On her return, she became a member of the CFT UK Committee.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781868889044
  • Publisher: Unisa Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Unisa Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Series Title: Hidden Histories
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1868889041
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Personal Journeys Beyond Apartheid


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