100 Years of Struggle ─ Mandela's ANC

The early African National Congress consisted mainly of a few educated and politically conscious blacks who made polite protests, fearful of offending white liberal sympathies. United under Nelson Mandela’s world status as the courageous symbol of the struggle of freedom, the ANC was the only internationally recognized organization capable of negotiating with the apartheid government to end the conflict in South Africa. A unique record of the men and women that formed South Africa’s democracy, Heidi Holland chronicles the organization’s painful evolution with special focus on Nelson Mandela and other key figures.

Heidi Holland is an accomplished author and journalist, based in Johannesburg who published African Magic with Penguin Books in 2001. She co-edited From Jo’burg to Jozi in 2002.