This series honours the lives of Southern African leaders who helped shape the history of the region. The books include activities for exploration in the classroom. James grew up as an orphan who had to leave school at an early age to begin working, yet he became one of South Africa's most respected advocates of democracy, an independent thinker and tireless fighter for justice.

 

This book is part of a book series called They Fought For Freedom .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Maskew Miller Longman (Pty) Ltd .

This book has the following chapters: Armies and "hooligan gangs"; sweating it out in SWA; building the ICU; Belgium, Germany and the Soviet Union; in and out of the CP; dark folks arise; in the army; the final years, 1947-1961. Learn new words. Activities.