1997

Year-end Review 1997

GUNTHER SIMMERMACHER reviews the year 1997 January 1997 The Southern African bishops in a pastoral letter urge Catholics to observe the Year of Jesus Christ. Bishop Carlos...

The House in Tyne Street

THE HOUSE IN TYNE STREET: Childhood Memories of District Six, by Linda Fortune. Published by Kwela Books, 1996. 132 pp. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher In 1966, PW...

Dead Man Walking

DEAD MAN WALKING, by Sr Helen Préjean. Published by Harper Collins. 1996. 358 pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher