Malala Justice
Malala Justice - The Plot To Save South Africa The Week Mandela Averted Civil War And Forged A New Nation - Hardcover
Malala Justice - The Plot To Save South Africa The Week Mandela Averted Civil War And Forged A New Nation - Hardcover
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Description: A gripping and important (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's prot g by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg Easter weekend 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty - seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F. W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela's popular heir apparent Chris Hani in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. Twenty - two - year - old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days the protests and police brutality reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat - ready he was terrified the assassin's plot might succeed. In The Plot to Save South Africa Malala masterfully (Foreign Affairs) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far - right elements within the South African government in inciting or even planning the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on how did these political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they d long abhorred despite provocation and their own failures doubts and fears to keep their country from descending into civil war?
Title: The Plot To Save South Africa The Week Mandela Averted Civil War And Forged A New Nation
Author(s): Malala Justice
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982149734
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: African History
Description: A gripping and important (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's prot g by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg Easter weekend 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty - seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F. W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela's popular heir apparent Chris Hani in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. Twenty - two - year - old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days the protests and police brutality reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat - ready he was terrified the assassin's plot might succeed. In The Plot to Save South Africa Malala masterfully (Foreign Affairs) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far - right elements within the South African government in inciting or even planning the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on how did these political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they d long abhorred despite provocation and their own failures doubts and fears to keep their country from descending into civil war?
Title: The Plot To Save South Africa The Week Mandela Averted Civil War And Forged A New Nation
Author(s): Malala Justice
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982149734
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: African History
