Missing The Boat I would have wished for

I would have wished for many more layers of the personal than what Brown actually gives us – he keeps his focus unrelentingly on the professional

In 1978 he was briefed by Mac Maharaj on a detailed expose of conditions on Robben Island written by Mandela and smuggled out to Durban-based lawyer Thumba Pillay

worked on the inquest into the death in detention of Imam Abdullah Haron

'Writing poetry

is very hard work

Missing The Boat I would have wished forA young man sets out to build a boat from materials scrounged from building sites and bought with carefully hoarded occasional wages; it becomes an object of love as each plank and screw finds its place over many months. The small catamaran is painstakingly transferred to the coast where it is finished and finally launched on an extraordinary maiden voyage. This is an adventure of a rare kind, which not only describes a sea going experience in