His voice, elan, verve and chutzpah give his biography a true sense of one of ... in the tracks of the narratives in former president Thabo Mbeki’s “I am an African” speech that set the ...

To explain why it is perhaps useful to begin by going over Pollak’s biography (much of this ground is also covered ... Two early reality checks to his naïve views were Thabo Mbeki’s campaign against ...

Politicsweb very kindly published my critique of the first and second editions of the biography, Chris Hani ... are of Albert Luthuli, Govan Mbeki and Thabo Mbeki. This gives global attention to Hani ...

The basic line pushed by President Thabo Mbeki (and others) was that government underestimated ... This is known, in other fields, as misdirection. A Wikipedia entry notes how "The magician ...

After leading the National Party to the second place in South Africa’s first fully representative general election of 27 April 1994, Mr De Klerk was inaugurated as one of South Africa’s two Executive ...

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 ...

Thabo Mbeki himself puts it in a more nuanced way ... (Shubin, ibid, page 281). [In his biography of Mac Maharaj entitled "Shades of Difference - Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa", ...

He has notable awards, such as the presidential awards from Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in 1994 and 2001 ... Briefly.co.za published Angie Motshekga's biography. She is the Minister of Defence and ...

Thabo Mbeki. The main body of Zuma's autobiography is dated 2 May 1985, two months before the ANC national conference at Kabwe in Zambia, its last such conference before its return from exile in 1990.