Shades of Difference Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South
Africa The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid
movement, told through the experiences of its unsung hero The
struggle in South Africa to destroy apartheid was one of the
great moral crusades of the last century, and Mac Maharaj played
a pivotal role in the liberation movement for nearly four
decades. A South African of Indian descent, Maharaj suffered
brutal tortures and twelve years of imprisonment on Robben
Island with Nelson Mandela. It was Maharaj who smuggled out the
manuscript of Mandela's autobiography, and he later served in
his government. Based on extensive interviews with Maharaj over
the last eleven years and hitherto unavailable documents,
Padraig O'Malley's vividly rendered tale will enthrall anyone
interested in a true story of heroism and the story of a
people's struggle for freedom. In the late 1980's, the apartheid
regime in South Africa lurched uncertainly from one reform to
the next, but I could not face the ultimate ste