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Allister Sparks

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March 10, 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Politics, Nonfiction, History

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Allister Haddon Sparks is 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.

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

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

Average rating: 3.83 · 132 ratings · 11 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Mind of South Africa 3.94 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tutu: Authorized by Allister Sparks, Mpho Tutu 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tutu: The Authorised Portrait by Allister Sparks, Mpho Tutu, Mpho A Tutu 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	First Drafts: South African History in the Making 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Tomorrow Is Another Country: Inside Story of South Africa's Negotiated Revolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: