Bring Me My Machine Gun The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma

Name: Bring Me My Machine Gun The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
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ISBN: 9781586487386

ISBN-10: 1586487388

ISBN-13: 9781586487386

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alec Russell

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Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice, as it prepares to elect Jacob Zuma as presidentsignaling a potential slide back to the bad old days of post-colonial African leadership, and disaster for a country that was once the beacon of the continent.Drawing on his long relationships with all the key senior figures including Mandela, Mbeki, Desmond Tutu, and Zuma, and a host of South Africans he has known over the yearsincluding former…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Alec Russell is the associate foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph. He was previously its Southern African correspondent, based in Johannesburg, and a stringer reporting on the Bosnian conflict.



Chronology


Map of South Africa


Introduction: The New Struggle



Succeeding a Saint



The Other Side of the Rainbow



Liberation Movements Have a Habit of Not Aging Gracefully



The Difficulties of Delivery



A City Under Siege



The White Africans



The New Randlords



The Graves of the Ancestors



The AIDS Betrayal



The 100 Percent Zulu Boy



The Shadow of Zimbabwe


Acknowledgments


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index