Country Of My Skull
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407063515
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

Country Of My Skull

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1 Jul 2010
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‘This is a deeply moving account of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission … A beautiful and powerful book’ – Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It was to seek the truth and make it known to the public and to prevent these brutal events ever happening again. From 1996 and over the following two years South Africans were exposed almost daily to revelations about their traumatic past. Antije Krog's full account of the Commission's work using the testimonies of the oppressed and oppressors alike is a harrowing and haunting book in which the voices of ordinary people shape the course of history.

WINNER OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407063515
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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About the author

Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog was born in 1952 in Kroonstad, a town in the Free State province of South Africa. She has published eight volumes of poetry, several of which have been translated into European languages and have won international prizes.

Reporting as Antjie Samuel, the author and her SABC radio team received the Pringle Award for excellence in journalism for their reporting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Krog also won the Foreign Correspondents' Award for outstanding journalism for her articles on the Truth Commission. She is presently parliamentary editor for SABC Radio.

Antjie Krog is married and is the mother of four children.

Praise for Country Of My Skull

Her accounts are so powerful, her resilience, humour and compassion so engaging...to have written this book is heroic

Sunday Times

Krog's account of the hearings, which recorded 20,000 statements from victims and nearly 8,000 applications for amnesty, is vivid and impassioned

Mail on Sunday

No one will tell us more about the struggle for the Afrikaner's soul; for this book, like the events it reports, is an act of redemption

Daily Telegraph

One of the best books of the year

The Economist

Whatever it is that makes a major lasting work of non-fiction, it is here

Observer