An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile Volume 53

by Melissa Diane Armstrong

During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required medical attention during their period of exile. An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228003296
• ISBN13: 9780228003298
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 344 Pages