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The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Liveright
September 2012
On Sale: September 3, 2012
598 pages
ISBN: 0871404788
EAN: 9780871404787
Kindle: B007HX8FWS
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Non-Fiction
The most important historical and journalistic
portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine
the fate of a continent. A brutally honest
exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait
of a country caught between a democratic future and a
political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on
Nelson Mandela’s transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a
leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented
access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the
Mandela family, traces the nation’s entire post-apartheid
arc, from its celebrated beginnings under “Madiba” to Thabo
Mbeki’s tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between
Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from
the point of view of the emerging black elite but also,
drawing on hundreds of rare interviews over a six-year
period, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens,
including an HIV-infected teenager living outside
Johannesburg and a homeless orphan in Cape Town. This is the
long-awaited, revisionist account of a country whose recent
history has been not just neglected but largely ignored by
the West.
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