Login / Register
0 Wishlist
0 items / R0.00
Jacana
  • ABOUT
  • OUR BOOKS
  • PARTNER PUBLISHERS
    • Roberts Bird Books
    • Burnet Media
    • MISTRA Publications
    • Staging Post
  • JACANA LITERARY FOUNDATION
    • Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
    • Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award
    • Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize
    • From Pitch to Publication
  • DON’T SHUT UP
    • Jacana Conversations
    • Jacana Masterclass
    • Jacana Broadsides
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • CONTACT US
Search
Menu
Jacana Jacana
0 items R0.00
Sold out
Click to enlarge
Home Memoir Inside Apartheid’s Prison
Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson R280.00
Back to products
This Is the Chick R160.00
Jacana Media

Inside Apartheid’s Prison

R320.00

Jacana Media are proud to make this important book, now with a completely new afterword, available again. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne, and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, in 2001, the book was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton award in 2002. In the public imagination the struggle that saw the end of apartheid and inauguration of a democratic South Africa is seen as one waged by black people who were often imprisoned or killed for their efforts. Raymond Suttner, an academic, is one of a small group of white South Africans who was imprisoned for his efforts to overthrow the apartheid regime. He was first arrested in 1975 and tortured with electric shocks because he refused to supply information to the police. He then served eight years for underground activities for the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). After his release in 1983, he returned to the struggle and was forced to go underground to evade arrest, but was re-detained in 1986 for 27 months; 18 of these being spent in solitary confinement. In the last months of this detention Suttner was allowed to have a pet lovebird, which he tamed and used to keep inside his tracksuit. When he was eventually released from detention in September 1988 the bird was on his shoulder. Suttner was held under stringent house arrest conditions, imposed to impede further political activities. He however defied his house arrest restrictions and attended an Organisation for African Unity meeting in Harare, where he remained for five months. Shortly after his return to SA, when he anticipated being re-arrested, the state of emergency was lifted and the ANC and other banned organisations were unbanned. The book describes Suttner’s experience of prison in a low-key, unromantic voice, providing the texture of prison life. This ‘struggle memoir’ is also intensely personal, as Suttner is not averse to admitting his fears and anxieties. The new edition contains an afterword where Suttner describes his break with the ANC and SACP. But he argues that the reasons for his rupturing this connection that had been so important to his life were the same ethical reasons that had led him to join in the first place. He remains convinced that what he did was right and continues to act in accordance with those convictions.

Click here to buy the Kindle edition of Inside Apartheid’s Prison 

Out of stock

Add to wishlist
Share:
  • Additional information
  • Shipping & Delivery
Additional information
Dimensions 235 × 155 × 30 mm
Author

Raymond Suttner

Author Information

Raymond Suttner, who lives in Johannesburg, is a part-time Professor at Rhodes University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa. Initially a legal academic, he later obtained an interdisciplinary PHD in history, political studies and sociology. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, as described in this re-issued edition. His other titles include The ANC Underground (2008) and Recovering Democracy in South Africa (2015) that were both published by Jacana Media.

ISBN

9781431425174

Year of Publication

2017

Month of Publication

May

Language

English

Imprint

Jacana Media

Format

Print edition

Shipping & Delivery

Deliveries Within South Africa

Free shipping for all orders over R600.

R80.00 flat rate for all orders less than R600.

International Shipping

If you want your order shipped anywhere outside of South Africa, please email websiteorders@jacana.co.za with the list of titles and physical delivery address and contact number. Our team will be in touch to advise on the cost and when you could expect to receive it.

If you are ordering from a country outside of South Africa, please complete your purchase as directed. You will then be contacted by one of our admin team to arrange shipping and delivery to wherever needed.

December Holiday Season

Our last, full (24hr) trading day is 22 December 2020 and we’ll be back to work 6 January 2021.  Any orders placed between 18 December 2020 and 5 January 2021 will only be despatched from the warehouse on our return.

Related products

Sold out

Back In From the Anger

R280.00
Read more
Quick view
Add to wishlist

Declassified: Moving beyond the dead-end of race in South Africa

R280.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist

Endings and beginnings

R280.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist

Kader Asmal: Politics in My Blood

R320.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist

Love Is War: The Modimolle monster

R280.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist

O’Mandingo!: The Only Black at a Dinner Party

R280.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist

Still Grazing

R380.00
Add to cart
Quick view
Add to wishlist
Sold out

White Scars

R280.00
Read more
Quick view
Add to wishlist

    Instagram

    Calling all sports fanatics! Shop our wide range Calling all sports fanatics! 

Shop our wide range of sports titles and more at 50% off at the #JacanaBirthdaySale

Use Coupon Code BIRTHDAY50 at checkout

www.jacana.co.za
    Rise and shine! It's another beautiful day to shop Rise and shine! It's another beautiful day to shop the #JacanaBirthdaySale!

Today is the last day to claim 50% off our entire site!

Shop at www.jacana.co.za and use the coupon code BIRTHDAY50 at checkout!

Happy shopping!
    Browse our impressive and extraordinary list of Af Browse our impressive and extraordinary list of African literature at the #JacanaBirthdaySale!

Books to cook up a storm, beat about the bush or escape into another world altogether. We have it all.

Shop now at www.jacana.co.za. Use code BIRTHDAY50 at checkout to get 50% off your purchase.
    We have an amazing selection of Natural History ti We have an amazing selection of Natural History titles from top experts/authors in their respective fields. Go on, have a look at our catalogue here: https://jacana.co.za/product-category/natural-history/

50% discount
Discount code: BIRTHDAY50
#FreeDeliveryinSA
#JacanaBirthdaySale
    We're bragging on #ResoketsweManenzhe behalf! Her We're bragging on #ResoketsweManenzhe behalf! Her debut novel #Scatterlings has scooped 4 literary awards and been shortlisted for a 5th. 

Buy it now on the #JacanaBirthdaySale at 50% off and #FreeDelivery within SA. 

Scatterlings will be translated into English (Welsh), Czech, German and Italian! 

Click here to purchase: https://jacana.co.za/product/scatterlings/
    Whether you’re looking for resource of recommend Whether you’re looking for resource of recommendation, we have a range of award-winning titles at 50% of at the #JacanaBirthdaySale! Shop now at www.jacana.co.za 

Use Coupon code BIRTHDAY50 at checkout.

#FreeDeliveryinSA
    Load More… Follow on Instagram

    Facebook

    Jacana
    Jacana Media
    • About Jacana
    • The Jacana Literary Foundation
    • Submissions
    • Shop
    • Support Jacana
    Useful Info
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    STAY UPDATED
    • Don't Shut Up
    • Sign Up for our Mailing List
    • Contact
    Catalogues for Download
    • Genre Catalogues
    • 2020_2021 New titles and forthcoming releases
    JACANA MEDIA 2023
    • HOME
    • ABOUT
    • OUR BOOKS
    • PARTNER PUBLISHERS
      • Roberts Bird Books
      • Burnet Media
      • MISTRA Publications
      • Staging Post
    • JACANA LITERARY FOUNDATION
      • Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
      • Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award
      • Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize
      • From Pitch to Publication
    • DON’T SHUT UP
      • Jacana Conversations
      • Jacana Masterclass
      • Jacana Broadsides
    • SUBMISSIONS
    • CONTACT US
    • Wishlist
    • Login / Register
    Shopping cart
    Close

    Please place your order by 13 December for delivery to main centres by 22 December.

    Our warehouse is closed between 22 December and 1 January.

    Please place your order by 13 December for delivery to main centres by 22 December.

    Our warehouse is closed between 22 December and 1 January.

    The Jacana People's

    Online Sale.

    50% off

    Sitewide.

    27 March.
    One Day Only.

    DAYS
    HR
    MIN
    SC

    The Jacana People's

    Online Sale.

    50% off

    Sitewide.

    27 March.
    One Day Only.

    DAYS
    HR
    MIN
    SC
    Sign in
    Close

    Lost your password?

    No account yet?

    Create an Account
    Start typing to see products you are looking for.

    Subscribe to our mailing list and receive 10% off your first purchase

    Fill out this form and watch your inbox for your coupon.