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Capa de Sophiatown

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Sophiatown

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"A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild …

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"A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild young man, of his people's struggle for liberation and of his own conversion from violence to the use of peaceful methods. He provides a searing view of a troubled land"--Publisher's Weekly.

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""A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. …"

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