Robben Island to Wall Street
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Acknowledgements
9
Foreword by Dr Richard Maponya
11
Part 1
13
Robben Island revisited
15
Part 2
23
To Vilakazi Street, Soweto
25
Crossing the Rubicon
48
My suburban bridgehead
56
The African Bank
56
One for the road
56
Part 3
66
Sontaha ya Mehlolo
69
Bekkersdal
87
Growing pains
93
My political awakening
95
The initiation
99
The betrayal: Number Four Prison
105
Welcome to my farm.Weicome to the party
112
Journeying to Robben Island
124
The Reception
130
Part 4
130
Robben Island, Prisoner
141
Unzima lomthwalo
150
The melting pot
164
The wheels came off
168
My B trumpet
178
Part 5
185
Goodbye, Robben Island
187
By ministerial order, you’ve
193
Chloe sisal plantation
202
This could be a new beginning
214
Part 6
221
Unstoppable, a new man
223
Picking up the pieces
229
Searching for a career
235
Part 7
247
You’re a free man, Gaby
249
Midwest, USA
262
I stumble into banking
267
Welcome to New York City
285
On Broadway with the stars
289
A summing up: Of this and no orther soil
305
Glossary
313
Illustrations
333
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