Allister Haddon Sparks is a South African writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects. Sparks is a fifth-generation South African. He was born on March 10, 1933, at Cathcart, a farming village in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.[1] Sparks later wrote a number of critically-acclaimed books on South Africa's transition from apartheid, including Tomorrow is Another Country (1996), The Mind of South Africa (1991), and more recently Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2006). Sparks founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa and was its executive director from 1992 to 1997.
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- Allister Sparks, Journalist and lecturer
- Allister Sparks.
- Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush, Transcript of Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 interview by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, mp3 interview here
- Recounting a revolution
