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Book SynopsisHarvey Tyson has been actively reporting, analysing and writing for 70 years, on subjects ranging from news, politics and socio-economics to book reviews, history and travel.
Table of ContentsPart 1 – Looking Both Ways 1800–1900: 1. The boy who ran away; 2. When your best friend is killed; 3. When silence does not pay; 4. Joseph Wood’s anger at the cross Rhodes; 5. Battles fought in blood and ink; 6. The war of “34”; 7. The past – and the best road ahead; 8. A hundred years of headlines; Part 2 – Too Early for The News 1920–1945: 9. Confessions of a desperate newsman; 10. Dancing through the Roaring Twenties; 11. When our mother left home; 12. Growing up in a gwenya tree; 13. “The happiest days of your life”; 14. The war? What war?; 15. Sexual and other explanations; Part 3 – Learning The Ropes 1945–1950s: 16. Green monster seen in the “Big Hole”; 17. Accusing a man of the wrong crime; 18. When I broke the rules of ethical reporting; 19. Inside the newsroom on deadline; 20. A baby’s laugh o’er the general’s coffin; 21. The three Malans; 22. “Knock twice and ask for Jesus”; 23. Crashes and shambles – and Europe in ruins; Part 4 – From Our Correspondent 1950–1990: 24. Romance, legionnaires and some tall tails; 25. Murder and hangings; 26. Some beautiful people; 27. “If X, Y, Z?”; 28. A cabinet minister admits his ignorance; 29. Liars, and a snake in the grass; 30. The daily “rush” – hitched to a star; 31. June ‘76 Soweto protests get world attention; 32. The other side of the story; Part 5 – Bad Times, Good Times1987–2017: 33. Security Police and memories to haunt us all; 34. Apartheid’s curse; 35. The “miraculous” nineties; 36. Memories and cherries; 37. Dreams of Academe in the cherry fields; 38. A pantheon – to honour the past and alert the future; 39. Choosing champions to stand beside Mandela.
