Two collections of oral history interviews recorded between 1989 and 1999. Eyewitnesses to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and to the post-apartheid transition in South Africa — speaking in the immediate aftermath of events, before the histories had been written and the memories shaped by the telling. Audio recordings in preparation.
"I think in your life — in life — one time is a true point. You must change all of this, and you must go, and you must move. I think it's only one time in your life." — Dusty, student strike committee, Žilina, November 1989
"There was a middle ground, and some white people were willing to participate in a way that was sympathetic to them. And it's also made a difference to the white community." — Anthony, Karoo Mobile Law Clinic, Colesburg, 1998