The classic story of life in apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education,...

Describes the childhood, political activities, imprisonment, family, and presidency of Nelson Mandela.

A biography of the black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.