Press Release: 7000 Books donated to high schools

 

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SOUTH AFRICA ACQUIRES LITTLE TIGER    space PRESS RELEASE 7 December 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   7000 BOOKS DONATED TO HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY   MAC MAHARAJ AND Z. PALLO JORDAN Breakthrough is an accessible and authoritative account of the power struggles and secret talks that led to the formal negotiations between the ANC and the NP government, written by Mac Maharaj and Z. Pallo Jordan, two ANC veterans who were close to these events.   Because the book is an integral part of our history, the authors approached potential sponsors to make it available to a high-school audience. Through their generous sponsorship, and with the approval of the national and provincial education departments, every high school in South Africa was sent a copy of the book, to be placed in their school library so that learners, educators and staff can access it. The total number of copies already distributed is 6903 and the provincial distribution is: Limpopo                                                1300 copies Gauteng                                                 880 copies North West                                            432 copies Western Cape                                       661 copies Northern Cape                                      154 copies Mpumalanga                                         615 copies KZN                                                         1730 copies Free State                                              358 copies Eastern Cape                                         773 copies The authors would like to thank the following sponsors who made this donation possible: Sivi Moodley of Macrocomm, Loganathan Naidoo of the Capital Hospital Group, Vikash and Anju Narsai from VNA Consulting, Abdool Karim (AK) Khan of Merit Clothing and Suresh Naidoo of Accensis.   Breakthrough was published in September 2021 and is available in all bookstores.   Mac Maharaj has been involved in the freedom struggle since 1953. After serving a twelve-year sentence on Robben Island from 1965 to 1976, he was appointed secretary of the department charged with organising the ANC within South Africa. He served on the Revolutionary Council from 1978 and the NEC of the ANC from 1985 to 2000. He was joint secretary of CODESA, the Multi-Party Negotiating Forum and the Transitional Executive Council. He served in the first democratic cabinet and retired from active politics in 1999. President Zuma appointed him special envoy in 2009 and spokesman from 2011 to 2015, when he retired from that position.   Z. Pallo Jordan has been a political activist since his student days. The ANC sent him to Luanda, Angola, in 1977 to revive Radio Freedom. He was elected to the NEC of the ANC in July 1985. He served on the ANC’s Constitutional Committee, established in 1986, and was its liaison with the NWC and the NEC. He was appointed to head the ANC’s Department of Information in 1988 and served as its principal spokesman until he entered Parliament in 1994. He served in various cabinet positions until 2008. ISBN: 978 1 77609 647 3 | RRP: R280 | CLASSIFICATION: History For more information, contact Ian Dennewill at IDennewill@penguinrandomhouse.co.za / 071 769 6647 or visit www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za.     CAPE TOWN • TEL +27 (0)21 460 5400 • The Estuaries No 4, Oxbow Crescent, Century Ave, Century City, 7441 MIDRAND • Tel.: +27 (0)11 327 3550 • Unit 12A (ii), Growthpoint Business Park, 162 Tonetti Street, Halfway House Ext 7, Midrand, 1685 VAT REG 4620156200 • Co. REG No 1953/000441/07

 

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