Published by Tafelberg, 2009

Hardcover with dustjacket - jacket has a closed tear and the bottom and top of the boards have rubbing. Please see pics for condition.

An insiders account, brimming with colorful anecdotes, humor and passion, of South Africas turbulent past. Kumalo shares intimate moments of pain and of triumph, in pictures and words.

He was the one who escorted Nelson Mandelas aged mother through the menacing crowds at the Rivonia Trial. He was there at HF Verwoerds funeral. He was a guest at Mohammad Alis home in Chicago and at the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Kinshasa. Kumalo joined Mandela on his first visit to America as SA president.

Kumalos lifes work is a visual documentary of a nations transformation, but he is also a storyteller of note. His first-person account of historic events and private moments is filled with humor and compassion.

An extraordinary and gripping eyewitness account, featuring amongst others:

· Nelson Mandela and his family

· Steve Biko

· Desmond Tutu

· Helen Joseph

· Albertina Sisulu

· Nadine Gordimer

· Nat Nakasa

· Muhammad Ali

· Ray Charles

· Robert Kennedy

· Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba

· Dizzie Gillespie