SIGNED. A Time To Speak. MEMORIES OF MANDELA'S PRISON PRIEST. Harry Wiggett

SIGNED COPY

2007. Soft cover. 122 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. 

The film Goodbye Bafana tells of South Africa’s long walk to freedom through the relationship between racist prison warder, James Gregory, and prisoner number 46664, Nelson Mandela.

This was undoubtedly a captivating way to tell the story from both a political and human perspective. But given the overtly spiritual and religious character of communities across apartheid’s political and racial divides the story seemed to lack the very narrative that has always connected oppressed and oppressor.

 In A time to speak Harry Wiggett, priest and poet – and prison chaplain to Nelson Mandela both on Robben Island and at Pollsmoor – deepens the picture