This magnificent anthology will surely emerge as one of the best books out of South Africa this year, if not this decade.

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", ...

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 ...

In Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki, June 2007, Roberts complained that Gumede ... However, Roberts - who was still working on his biography of Nadine Gordimer - was only able to ...

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 ...

Steinberg effectively finishes his tale with the ANC’s victory in the 1994 election. In this he follows Mark Gevisser whose biography of Thabo Mbeki omits Mbeki’s presidency, by far the most ...

During this period he was involved in underground work with former President Thabo Mbeki and others, giving leadership to ANC structures operating inside South Africa . He also dealt with the ...

Thabo Mbeki testified at the TRC hearing in May 1997 ... Beresford (2010, 162) notes the gaps in Jacob Zuma's biography-his lifelong membership in the SACP, that he left South Africa in 1975 and ...

A range of reviewers of the Mangcu biography and eminent journalist Zubeida Jaffer ... and "I have never admired a white man, but the greatest of them, to my mind, was Hitler.” Thabo Mbeki commented ...

Former president Thabo Mbeki has challenged the KwaZulu-Natal ANC leadership to act in a manner that will ensure the electorate returns the party at the helm of the provincial government.

Johannesburg - Former ANC and South African President Thabo Mbeki has once again thrown the cat among the pigeons in a letter he wrote to the governing party. Mbeki’s letter was written on ...