Little wonder Thebe Ikalafeng’s memoir is racing up the charts of best-read books. Africa’s brand champion and South Africa’s uber-marketer has written a romp, part travelogue and part memoir.

Nelson Mandela, in his book, "Conversations with Myself", alluded to the central role of Thabo Mbeki in the initial 'talks about talks ... (Shubin, ibid, page 281). [In his biography of Mac Maharaj ...

Other biographies of South African political leaders in this series, titled Ohio Short Histories of Africa, are of Albert Luthuli, Govan Mbeki and Thabo Mbeki ... or lack of reliability, of the book ...

and the biography of Thabo Mbeki by Mark Gevisser (Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 2007). Published only five months before the April elections, this fall in quality in ...

The book is purportedly a portrait of a marriage but is really ... In this he follows Mark Gevisser whose biography of Thabo Mbeki omits Mbeki’s presidency, by far the most consequential part of Mbeki ...