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The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
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April 2009
On Sale: April 13, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 1586487388
EAN: 9781586487386
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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
president—signaling 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 years—
including former activists turned billionaires and
reactionary Boers—Alec Russell’s Bring Me My Machine Gun is
a beautifully told and expertly researched account of South
Africa’s great tragedy: the tragedy of hope unfulfilled.
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