This book focuses on effective communication and is designed to help the reader achieve greater fluency in English. Adopting a practical approach, it makes the important distinction between what is essential (‘core’) for intelligibility and what is relatively unimportant (‘peripheral’).

"Sizwe Bansi Is Dead reveals the perversities of human identity in a country where a man is equal to his passbook. The Island celebrates the strength of man's connection to man, even within the dehumanizing confines of a prison cell on Robben Island. Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws."--Publisher description.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.