Product Description

John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London, was the Englishman white South Africans most loved to hate. Herbstein charts his single-minded campaign to provide material support to those waging the struggle against apartheid The organisations founded by Canon Collins, the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and Christian Action, depended on the work of volunteers across the world. The secrecy with which they operated is why the story of these networks has been virtually unknown until now

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #969222 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Review
Herbstein's book recounts an epic of human courage and inventiveness... of a commitment to human rights that never wavered. Through his talent for laying bare the threads in an intricate, sometimes hardly visible web, an important piece of contemporary history has been preserved' - Per Wastberg, Swedish writer and chair-designate of the Nobel literary prize committee 'Those differences make up the gripping story ('welfare le Carre style) that Denis Herbstein, with recourse to hundreds of personal interviews and correspondence with participants in the 'white lies', tells of the secret war against apartheid, Collins's 'decades-long clandestine funding war on the perpetrators and practices of apartheid.' - Race & Class. Sage Publications

About the Author
Denis Herbstein is a South African born journalist, and former member of the renowned Sunday Times Insight investigation team and wrote about IDAF in The Observer