Overview

He wrote on politics and racism before the word 'apartheid' ever made headlines. He has questioned southern African leaders from Drs. Malan and Verwoerd to Vorster, PW Botha, FW de Klerk to the first president of Zambia, Kenneth Kuanda, and President Mugabe; including global leaders such as President Mandela, General Smuts, President Gerald Ford and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Why The Other Side? In part one of Tyson's remarkable autobiography he encourages views that are different to the fixed positions which most people hold on both sides of the political divide. He writes lightly about his most dangerous moments, and sympathetically about those who struggle to help others. He invites you to look at the situation from 'the other side' - wherever confrontation arises.

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Author:   Harvey Tyson
Publisher:   Publishing Print Matters
Imprint:   Publishing Print Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780987009586

ISBN 10:   0987009583
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   17 December 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 - Looking Both Ways 1800-1900: 1. The boy who ran away; 2. When your best friend is killed; 3. When silence does not pay; 4. Joseph Wood's anger at the cross Rhodes; 5. Battles fought in blood and ink; 6. The war of 34 ; 7. The past - and the best road ahead; 8. A hundred years of headlines; Part 2 - Too Early for The News 1920-1945: 9. Confessions of a desperate newsman; 10. Dancing through the Roaring Twenties; 11. When our mother left home; 12. Growing up in a gwenya tree; 13. The happiest days of your life ; 14. The war? What war?; 15. Sexual and other explanations; Part 3 - Learning The Ropes 1945-1950s: 16. Green monster seen in the Big Hole ; 17. Accusing a man of the wrong crime; 18. When I broke the rules of ethical reporting; 19. Inside the newsroom on deadline; 20. A baby's laugh o'er the general's coffin; 21. The three Malans; 22. Knock twice and ask for Jesus ; 23. Crashes and shambles - and Europe in ruins; Part 4 - From Our Correspondent 1950-1990: 24. Romance, legionnaires and some tall tails; 25. Murder and hangings; 26. Some beautiful people; 27. If X, Y, Z? ; 28. A cabinet minister admits his ignorance; 29. Liars, and a snake in the grass; 30. The daily rush - hitched to a star; 31. June '76 Soweto protests get world attention; 32. The other side of the story; Part 5 - Bad Times, Good Times1987-2017: 33. Security Police and memories to haunt us all; 34. Apartheid's curse; 35. The miraculous nineties; 36. Memories and cherries; 37. Dreams of Academe in the cherry fields; 38. A pantheon - to honour the past and alert the future; 39. Choosing champions to stand beside Mandela.

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Harvey Tyson, was a journalist on nine different daily newspapers in SA and abroad. He was an assistant editor on all three of South Africa's biggest daily newspaper and, for nearly 17 years, editor of Africa's biggest. He worked for The Times of London and other media and addressed conferences on three continents in a campaign to regain press freedom in the apartheid years. On his retirement , in 1990 he started the SA Journalist Union's highest citation; helped launch a monthly political magazine; commentated on TV and wrote or co-produced a dozen books. During his 90th year he hopes to complete two more books covering a wide number of different topics and issues.

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