424424

This fascinating book tells the story of how the telephone has always played a large part in the life of the author, Eve Jenkin. The main part of the book relates how the emergency phone set up in her house by the Durban Coast Region of the then Progressive Federal Party (PFP), 424424 became a number familiar to the residents of the Durban Townships and further afield. Political upheaval, murder, mayhem and institutionalised chaos were reported via 424424. The author and her family played an integral part in assisting all those who telephoned. Everything in this book is factual and can be corroborated from reports in the author’s possesion. The story of 424424 is related in this book in such a way that the reader is transported back in time to hear this personal, eye-witness account.