Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to
witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of
Nelson Mandelas rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandelas
successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the countrys reputation. South
Africa is now perched on a precipice, as it prepares to elect Jacob
Zuma as presidentsignaling 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
關於作者:
Alec Russell is World News Editor at the Financial Times, and
formerly their Johannesburg bureau chief. He previously covered the
wars in the former Yugoslavia and Africa for the Daily Telegraph
and was its foreign editor from 2001-2003. From 2003-2006 he was
based in Washington, D.C., and covered the Bush administration. He
is the author of two books and lives in London. --This text refers
to the Paperback edition.
目錄:
Chronology
Map of South Africa
Introduction: The New Struggle
CHAPTER 1 Succeeding a Saint
CHAPTER 2 The Other Side of the Rainbow
CHAPTER 3 Liberation Movements Have a Habit of NotAging
Gracefully
CHAPTER 4 The Difficulties of Delivery
CHAPTER 5 A City Under Siege
CHAPTER 6 The White Africans
CHAPTER 7 The New Randlords
CHAPTER 8 The Graves of the Ancestors
CHAPTER 9 The AIDS Betrayal
CHAPTER 10 The 100Percent ZuluBoy
CHAPTER 11 The Shadow of Zimbabwe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index