The Final Prize by Norman Levy

“Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the newspaper file I needed. He was looking at my greying hair and the creases under my eyes, and said quietly, “It’s been a long journey!” He was right! The journey I describe is both personal and political. The politics referred to is not about the science and art of government, but more often about the tensions between principles and political practice. At its core is a lifetime’s struggle with commitment, identity, choice and rejection.

• The Final Prize: Contents and Preface
• The Final Prize: Family - Chapter 1
• The Final Prize: The Politics of War - Chapter 2
• The Final Prize: The Broederbond - Chapter 3
• The Final Prize: Working from within: A Case Study in Futility - Chapter 4
• The Final Prize: On All Fronts - Chapter 5
• The Final Prize: A Spiral of Trials - Chapter 6
• The Final Prize: The Road to Fascism - Chapter 7
• The Final Prize: Into the Fifties: Defiance - Chapter 8
• The Final Prize: The Congress of Democrats: A Stalin Fetish - Chapter 9
• The Final Prize: The Freedom Charter - Chapter 10
• The Final Prize: “Bantu Education or the Street” - Chapter 11
• The Final Prize: A Charge of Treason - Chapter 12
• The Final Prize: Transition to Armed Struggle - Chapter 13
• The Final Prize: The Grand Coup: Rivonia - Chapter 14
• The Final Prize: The Chalk Circle: Face-to-Face with the Special Branch - Chapter 15
• The Final Prize: On Trial - Chapter 16
• The Final Prize: Inside and Out - Chapter 17
• The Final Prize: Exile - Chapter 18
• The Final Prize: Exile Politics - Chapter 19
• The Final Prize: Moscow, Havana, Harare and Home - Chapter 20
• The Final Prize: Select Bibliography