{"product_id":"slovo-the-unfinished-autobiography","title":"Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eA revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the key figures of the African National Congress, described as South Africa\u0026amp;;s “most important and most popular, white leader.\u0026amp;; As an immigrant from Lithuania, a Jew, a communist, a guerrilla fighter and strategist — and white — few public figures in South Africa were as demonized by the apartheid government as Joe Slovo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Slovo began his political life as a lawyer at the Johannesburg Bar where he was a colleague and close collaborator of Nelson Mandela in the 1950s. He also served as Mandela\u0026amp;;s lawyer in that period. He was co-founder with Mandela of the ANC\u0026amp;;s guerrilla movement, and became the first white person elected to the ANC national executive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlovo began writing this autobiography after the fatal bomb attack on his wife, Ruth First, portrayed in the film “A World Apart.\u0026amp;; After many years in prison and exile, Slovo returned to South Africa where he was to play a leading role in the constitutional negotiations. Following South Africa\u0026amp;;s first-ever democratic election in April 1994, he won widespread respect and admiration as Minister for Housing. He died of cancer in January 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ocean Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66858885185581,"sku":"1875284958","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0001\/8989\/files\/9781875284955.webp?v=1781317722","url":"https:\/\/shop.redflag.org.au\/products\/slovo-the-unfinished-autobiography","provider":"Red Flag Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}