South Africa's brave new world : the beloved country since the end of apartheid
Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 seemed to usher in an age of peaceful, rational change. But R.W. Johnson's major new book explains how this was not to be. The profound damage caused by apartheid and the nature of the country's new leaders - in exile or prison for much of their adult lives -were a disastrous combination that poisoned everything from big business to education and AIDS policy to relations with Zimbabwe
Print Book, English, 2010
Penguin Books, London, 2010