Signed Copy. A DIPLOMAT'S STORY - Apartheid and Beyond. 1969-1998

Inscribed by author. Presented to Ambassador Donald Sole.

1991. Hard cover. 465 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.

Pieter Wolvaardt's 29-years as a career diplomat in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs ran from 1969 to 1998. In this book of recollections from a long career he deals with the dilemma that all South African diplomats had to contend with, namely: working around morally questionable government policies during the apartheid era.

The author spent 29 years with the Department of Foreign Affairs. A personal view of the events that unfolded during his various postings. This includes the kidnap and murder of ambassador Eddie Dunn in El Salvador 1979. Initially posted to London & Lisbon, Author spent most of these years in various parts of South & Central America.

DONALD Sole was South Africa's ambassador to West Germany and the US, and one of the founders of the International Atomic Ener-gy Agency. , He joined the foreign affairs department in 1937 and his first diplomatic posting was as third secretary at the High Commis-sion in London during World War 2. In 1944 Sole helped set up a meeting in London between South Africa's prime minister Jan Smuts and the Danish atom-ic scientist Niels Bohr, which was the genesis of South Africa's atomic energy policy.