The basic line pushed by President Thabo Mbeki (and others) was that government underestimated ... This is known, in other fields, as misdirection. A Wikipedia entry notes how "The magician ...

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 ...

Politicsweb very kindly published my critique of the first and second editions of the biography, Chris Hani ... are of Albert Luthuli, Govan Mbeki and Thabo Mbeki. This gives global attention to Hani ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thabo Mbeki. The main body of Zuma's autobiography is dated 2 May 1985, two months before the ANC national conference at Kabwe in Zambia, its last such conference before its return from exile in 1990.

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 ...

In an address on Radio Freedom later that month Thabo Mbeki himself stated that if the black people ... Winnie Mandela was speaking out of turn is Anthony Sampson’s authorised biography of Nelson ...