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Allister Sparks

Born

in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa

March 10, 1933

Died

September 19, 2016

Genre

Politics, Nonfiction, History

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Allister Haddon Sparks was a South African writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.

Sparks later wrote a number of critically-acclaimed books on South Africa's transition from apartheid, including Tomorrow is Another Country (1996), The Mind of South Africa (1991) and more recently Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2006). Sparks founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa and was its executive director from 1992 to 1997. ...more

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HarperOne to Publish 'Tutu: Authorized' in Celebration of Desmond Tutu's 80th ... - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

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ALLISTER SPARKS has been a friend and comrade of Desmond Tutu for many decades. Sparks was editor of The Rand Daily Mail from 1977 to 1981 and South African correspondent for The Washington Post, The Observer and Holland's leading newspaper, ...

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Allister Sparks’s books

Average rating: 4.11 · 548 ratings · 65 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mind Of South Africa 4.27 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change 3.98 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tutu: Authorized by Allister Sparks, Mpho Tutu (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sword and the Pen: Six decades on the political frontier 4.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First drafts: South African history in the making 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tutu: The Authorised Portrait of Desmond Tutu, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama by Sparks, Allister, Tutu, Mpho (2011) Hardcover 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars