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- Birth nameAllister Haddon Sparks
- Allister Sparks was born on March 10, 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. He was a writer, known for Land Apart (1974), Mandela's Fight for Freedom (1995) and Booknotes (1989). He was married to Sue Matthey, Mary Rowe and Jenny Gandar. He died on September 19, 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- SpousesSue Matthey(1973 - 1999) (her death)Mary Rowe(1957 - 1972) (her death)Jenny Gandar (divorced)
- He was a prominent South African journalist and author who helped expose the brutality of the apartheid system.
- He was a white, English-speaking South African, growing up on a farm in a community where all of his friends were black. He was 15 when the apartheid system was established in 1948.
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