Foreword by George Bizos SC

First Edition 2012 South African Edition

Softcover

Beverly Naidoo

Mercifully free of liberation movement martyrology, Death of an Idealist makes a serious effort to engage with Aggett the man.
Mail & Guardian

Neil Aggett was 28 when he was found hanging from the bars of the steel grille in his cell in Security Police headquarters in Johannesburg on 5 February 1982. He was the 51st detainee, and the first white person, to die in apartheid detention.

His life involved a remarkable transformation from the settler child born in Kenya in 1953, with a father who interrogated Mau Mau suspects. Neil was ten when the family moved to apartheid South Africa.