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Discover the Untold Stories of Apartheid Through Brave Truth

Fourteen years since fleeing South Africa, leading social commentator on authentic leadership in ethical performance, Geraldine Coy, has finally told her touching and confronting story on apartheid in South Africa, in Brave Truth.

The human atrocity that was Apartheid in South Africa has been well documented over the decades. However none are more compelling than the front line account told in Brave Truth.
Geraldine Coy's book, Brave Truth reveals a first-hand look at what it was like to live through the volatility of an apartheid world, and the aftermath that followed it.

As a member of a Commission of Enquiry that published a report on findings of violence and atrocities, Geraldine and her family received numerous death threats and consequently had to flee the country and settle in Australia.

Geraldine reveals, for the first time, uncensored stories of those who were there and the courage and determination that kept them going after facing unspeakable events.

Whilst this focus is unparalleled in its raw cruelty in the context of our current society, the story is set into the context of Geraldine's life.

Geraldine emerged in a new South Africa firstly as a student activist and matured into a mediator advocating peaceful resolution of conflict across all communities. Geraldine's own foreword to the book hints at the work she was involved in, and the people with whom she was so privileged to work.

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" Nelson Mandela

"I have found that without the mutual obligation of us all to each other, to build a future based on respect for our rights; to live as we choose to live; to have a home which we can call a safe place; and the right to bring our children up in a world where their opportunities will be as broad as their dreams and as real as their efforts, we won't be able to take the next step toward this goal."
"I have tried to demonstrate that true compassion is a firm and rational decision made with sound reasoning, and does not falter even in the face of those who behave badly. That does not mean that I have ever shied away from the need for those responsible for bad behaviour to be held accountable in some form or another."

In this book, readers will be invited into the truth behind the real cause(s) of violence and the perpetration of terrible acts of retribution within communities driven by despair and poverty. The complexities of these communities, their history forged in the Apartheid regime, the values of their traditional leadership and the emergence of a new local order, thrown into a melting pot of controversy, all prevented the development of anything close to a safe society.

Length: 250 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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ASIN : B07N2QWXJB
Publisher : Global Publishing Group (30 November 2013)
Language: : English
File size : 4138 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 250 pages

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- 304 in Southern Africa History
- 361 in History of South Africa
- 491 in Historical Africa Biographies

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mackc

A story of South Africa's transition from Apartheid. It reads like one woman's' lifetime Action Research into social justice.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 May 2014

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There are conflicts which always confused me - Palestine, IRA, the Cold War etc etc. With confrontation it seems comes opportunists, agendas, money, power, media and spin. Often it seems too hard to sort out and just gets put in the too hard basket.

And still we continue to read of this everyday in our newspapers. It's happening as we speak in the Middle East, in the fracturing economies of Europe and in the growth of India, China and Mexico. But we also see it in varying degrees in every country in our own small communities and relationships.

Geraldine Coy's Brave Truth is a compelling true story about the human condition when things go wrong within our communities. When corruption becomes endemic and the greed of a few make victims of innocents who simply want to live in peace.

If you're interested in the story of South Africa's transition from Apartheid, of Nelson Mandela, of Truth and Reconciliation, of leadership or simply of one woman's' lifetime Action Research into social justice then Brave Truth is a book for you. It's a big story and an excellent read.

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