Get Up! Stand Up! 9780624081135, 9780624081142, 9780624081159, 0624081141

Table of contents :
Title page
Dedication
Mottos
Opening remarks â#x80
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the end at the beginning
1: Expatriate child â#x80
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an African upbringing
Migrant scholar and the discovery of literature
Joining the South African liberation struggle
Everlasting love
2: The discovery of politics â#x80
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introduction to Johnny Rotten, Leon Trotsky and Martin Legassick
Militant years
Activist in exile
Everlasting mountains
3: One of the great revolutions of the twentieth century
Learning a second literature
Everlasting literature
Coming out in Hillbrow and Alexandra
The State v Philemon Mauku: the defence of necessity. Making sense of liberation4: The AIDS Law Project â#x80
#x93
into the world of HIV and human rights
Learning about (AIDS) law
Learning about loss
Mr â#x80
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Aâ#x80
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and the Airways
5: Saving lives â#x80
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time for TAC
Challenging big pharma
Supper with the Santanas
Challenging bad government
6: Civil society uncivil government â#x80
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the horror of AIDS denialism
The time of dying
Everlasting death
Why civil disobedience was necessary
Lost in activism
Inside government: reluctant leader of SANAC
7: Defying â#x80
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prevailing wisdomsâ#x80
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â#x80
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AIDS Activistes Sans FrontiÃr̈es
Little China Girl. Brave old worldThe fruits of activism
For a few dollars more
8: Crossing borders
Rethinking activism
9: Back into the unknown â#x80
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the birth and infancy of SECTION27
Pay-back time: the journey towards quality basic education
Suffer the children: death by toilet
Bombs and birth
The lonesome death of Dudley Lee
10: Seize power! Endeavouring to build an independent and effective civil society
Demobilisation and doing away with civil society
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Regime changeâ#x80
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: the 2010 labour-civil society conference
Amandla! Awethu! Marikana and its aftermath
Farewell, Madiba. Combating hate: xenophobia and its aftermathOvercoming division: #UniteAgainstCorruption and state capture
Our own worst enemies
Saving South Africa
Is activism futile?
11: Journeying the present â#x80
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beliefs lost, values gained
The journeys that canâ#x80
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t be told
Epilogue â#x80
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the journey we must take together
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
About the book
Summary
About the author.

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