Kader Asmal : Politics in my blood a memoir / by Kader Asmal & Adrian Hadland with Moria LevyKader Asmal, lawyer and teacher, South African Cabinet minister,and the driving force behind the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, has been called man things - "small, bustling, curious, courageous, indefatigable" (Irish times) and "dapper, combative, witty, cantankerous, sarcastic, urbane precisely spoken" (Sunday Times). The son of a small-town shopkeeper from Natal, his life took him as far as exile in the UK, on to a senior position at Trinity College Dublin, and back to a free South Africa governed by an exemplary Constitution, which he helped device.
These memoirs are not only Asmal's personal journey. They are also the story of South Africa's transition from apartheid to freedom and democracy, in which he played a significant role, as a member of the ANC's Constitutional Committee and negotiating team and later as an MP and Cabinet minister under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. They provide testimony, too , to Asmal's lifelong dedication to freedom, equality and justice - ideals enshrined in the country's Bill of Rights, which he played a major part in writing.
Source : Kader Asmal : Politics in my blood a memoir / by Kader Asmal & Adrian Hadland with Moira Levy.
