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 ...

through the actions of one individual - Thabo Mbeki. I would like to believe that you and I have devoted out adult lives to the victory of the national democratic revolution, and nothing else.

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 ...

The inwardness of what makes Jacob Zuma tick was discussed by Mark Gevisser in his magisterial biography of Thabo Mbeki, “The Dream Deferred” which was written in 2007, before the fateful Polokwane ...

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 ...

To explain why it is perhaps useful to begin by going over Pollak’s biography (much of this ground is also covered ... Two early reality checks to his naïve views were Thabo Mbeki’s campaign against ...

Given her rejection by white children of her age, most of her childhood friends were black and later ... President Jacob Zuma, like President Thabo Mbeki before him, is a strenuous proponent of ...

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 ...

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 ...