Sophiatown

"A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild young man, of his people's struggle for liberation and of his own conversion from violence to the use of peaceful methods. He provides a searing view of a troubled land"--Publisher's Weekly.