Cleaner's Boy

A Resistance Road to a Liberated Life

Patric Tariq Mellet author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Tafelberg Publishers Ltd

Published:25th Mar '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Cleaner's Boy cover

It is through that choice of taking a resistance road, the one less travelled, that I got to experience a liberated life.' Patric Tariq Mellet took his first steps on this road at the tender age of 8 and by 13, he engaged in his first consequential and difficult political act. He organised a fast in his high school to protest the killing of anti-apartheid cleric, Imam Abdullah Haron in detention. The match had been lit. Arbitrarily classified as 'white' despite his heritage and family, he was ordered to join the armed forces. He refused as he could not take up arms against his own people. Instead he heeded the call of OR Tambo and joined resistance as an MK in exile. Mellet's autobiography demonstrates a spirit of innate and unbridled resistance, in small and major ways, that liberated Cleaner's Boy from an unpromising and tragic early life to a life of influence driven by a deep understanding of identity. A freedom fighter, a mystic and always a firebrand.

ISBN: 9780624093657

Dimensions: 234mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 500g

272 pages