Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 1962, China; Chapter 2 1961, The road to China; Chapter 3 1944, Conscientisation; Chapter 4 1931, Beginnings; Chapter 5 1949, Work, marriage, political activity; Chapter 6 1963, 'Rev Mokete Mokoena'; Chapter 7 1963, Trial and conviction; Chapter 8 1964, Prisoner 467/64; Chapter 9 1977, Prison life, family life; Chapter 10 1982, Keeping track of the struggle; Chapter 11 1985, 'Freedom was in sight.'; Chapter 12 1990, the start of a new life; Conclusion; Interviews undertaken for this book; Letters.
Mandla Mathebula was commissioned by the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation to write the biography of Andrew Mlangeni. He is a communications practitioner and public servant working at present as chief communications director for the Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs. He is a historian and has written extensively on Tsonga history. His book 800 Years of Tsonga History was published by Sasavona Books in 2014.
"Backroom Boy is a riveting account of a long life in the struggle for freedom both before and after the attainment of democracy in 1994. It is a living account of the many turns and twists in the life of a cadre in the centre, but backstage of the struggle for freedom in South Africa". - Siphamandla Zondi, professor and head of the school of Political Science at University of Pretoria. "This book is a valuable and dependable source book to ANC and MK (uMkhonto we Sizwe ) history with a lot of factual information that would not be known to the general reader". - Albie Sachs, retired Constitutional Court judge and author of We, the People: Insights of an activist judge.
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