Apartheid in my Rucksack
Apartheid in my Rucksack
The plan was ambitious and crazy: to catch trains and any other transport from Johannesburg through to Cairo. But there was one problem: it was the final years of apartheid, the world was crashing in on South Africa, and a white man from Johannesburg traveling in Africa was not a good idea. Journalist Ted Botha, tired of seeing his country isolated and in freefall, had a Canadian passport through his mother and a desire to see his continent. He hoped that would conceal his identity as he traveled into Zimbabwe and Zambia and then on the train to Dar es Salaam. But he was soon unmasked, branded a Prohibited Immigrant, and his travel plans were thrown into disarray – and his life too.
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