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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter IX - Return to my faith

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a very long time to be away from the faith into which y...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter VII - Democracy?

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph In January 1957 we were back again in the Drill Hall. The cage had bee...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter XII - Can we be free?

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol togethe...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Six months later, in August 1958, we came to trial. The government wan...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress Alliance, functioning with a closely co-ordinated leaders...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and t...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter IV - A meaningful life

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house ar...

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Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph At long last 1962 arrived and I could say to myself, "It's TH...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter IV - Becoming an activist

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I remember well that first meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, w...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter II - Partners in protest

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Soon after my return to South Africa in 1955, I had a brief personal l...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter III - My very ordinary life

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On that day in August 1956, I was already fifty-one. I often wonder ju...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The first anniversary of the Soweto shooting, 16 June 1977, was to b...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter XIV - End of an era

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white ...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter I - Learning to live a half life

From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at ...

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