A path through hard grass : a journalist's memories of exile and apartheid /

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A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss' journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts repor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weiss, Ruth, 1924- (Author)
Other Authors: Gordimer, Nadine (author of additional material.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2014.
Series:Lives, legacies, legends ; 11.
Subjects:
Weiss, Ruth, > 1924-
1900-1999
Apartheid > South Africa > History.
Exile (Punishment) > Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Anti-apartheid activists > South Africa > Biography.
Women journalists > Biography.
Women journalists > South Africa > Biography.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Bannissement > Rhodésie et Nyassaland.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Femmes journalistes > Biographies.
Femmes journalistes > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Anti-apartheid activists
Apartheid
Exile (Punishment)
Politics and government
Women journalists
South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Africa > Rhodesia and Nyasaland
South Africa
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; A NOTE REGARDING LANGUAGE; PROLOGUE; FROM FÜRTH TO JOHANNESBURG; AN UNJUST SOCIETY; NEW CUSTOMS; TEENAGE YEARS; JOHANNESBURG, JEWBURG AND E'GOLI; TROUBLED YEARS; EXPERIENCE WITH THE BOERS; THE FIFTIES; A NEW BEGINNING; CAREER MOVES; THE SIXTIES; FLIGHT AND TRAVEL; NEW FRIENDSHIPS AND LOVE; FLEET STREET, SALISBURY, LONDON; ZAMBIA
  • LIFE IN A FRONTLINE STATE; VOICE OF GERMANY; LONDON AND LANCASTER HOUSE; AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY; ZIMBABWE; SOUTH AFRICA; LATER YEARS; POSTSCRIPT; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS.

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