ARGONAUT BOOKS

Peter Hain has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his native South Africa. This is the story of that journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords. He describes his anti-apartheid parents' arrest and harassment in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close white family friend, and enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant anti-Springbok demonstrations he became 'Public Enemy Number One' in the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a bomb. He used ...Read More