Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997.
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Born Jewish and Lithuanian, he had arrived at ten in South Africa (where his father...
Literary Setting
Doris Lessing
This book deals (often satirically) with Martha's experience as a member of a rather amateurish Communist Party
group in Africa during the Second World War. The wave of local political consciousness is brief, brought about...
Material Conditions of Writing
Nadine Gordimer
NG
's first novel, The Lying Days, A Novel, appeared three years after the Communist Party of South Africa
was banned, and early in the government policy of apartheid or separation of the races...
politics
Gillian Slovo
GS
's parents were both charged after the arrest of 156 men and women of various races on 5 December 1956 led to historic treason trials which lasted for four years. One group was released...
Travel
Gillian Slovo
GS
and her husband
visited her outlaw father
in Mozambique in 1983, and she returned to that counry again in 1996. In 1990 she visited South Africa to promote her novel Ties of Blood at...
Timeline
After 14 May 1948: South Africa's newly elected Nationalist...
National or international item
After 14 May 1948
South Africa's newly elected Nationalist Party
under Dr Malan
formed the government and officially established the policy of apartheid.