Rivonia’s Chil­dren recounts the lit­tle-known sto­ry of three Jew­ish fam­i­lies and their remark­able strug­gle along­side Nel­son Man­dela against Apartheid, in the era when South Africa’s white-minor­i­ty regime descend­ed into a bru­tal police state. Impris­oned, exiled, and in some cas­es mur­dered, these activists paid a ter­ri­ble price for their courage, but their sac­ri­fices helped pave the way for a mul­ti-racial democ­ra­cy. The new Blue Ear Books edi­tion of Glenn Frankel’s clas­sic account of the cost of free­dom is as rel­e­vant to today’s strug­gles for jus­tice and equal­i­ty as when it was first pub­lished a quar­ter-cen­tu­ry ago. 

​“One of the best of the jour­nal­is­tic accounts of the anti-Apartheid strug­gle. But Frankel prop­er­ly digs deep­er and forces his read­ers to acknowl­edge how evil Apartheid was.” — Rich Mkhon­do, The Wash­ing­ton Post

​“A scrupu­lous­ly researched, riv­et­ing exam­i­na­tion of peo­ple who fought to make their coun­try a bet­ter place.” — The New York Times