A LIFE IN TRANSITION. Boraine, Alex, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

 Zebra, Cape Town, 2008, First Edition. Fine 8vo hardcover in Fine unpriced dust jacket; original black cloth, 332 pages incl. index, 40 photographs, b/w and colour. Bookdealer stamp and old price in front free end paper.

The autobiography of a leading is a South African politician and anti-Apartheid activist. Appointed the youngest-ever president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in 1972, Dr. Boraine was elected to Parliament as a member of the Progressive Party (PP) in 1974. He resigned in 1986 and, together with former PP leader Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, founded the Institute for Democracy in Africa (Idasa), which organized the historic 1987 meeting with ANC leaders in Dakar, Senegal. From 1986 to 1995, Boraine headed two South African nonprofit organizations concerned with ending apartheid and addressing the legacy it left behind. He was co-architect and deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (who wrote the foreword to this book). In 2001 Boraine co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice, an international human rights NGO, and served as its president for three years. Alex Boraine passed away in December 2018, aged 87.