After Mandela
Subtitle: the struggle for freedom in post-apartheid South Africa
By: Douglas Foster
Publisher: Liveright Pub. Corporation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780871404787
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Post-apartheid era; Social change
Description: A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation's entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under "Madiba" to Thabo Mbeki's tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point of view of the emerging black elite but also, drawing on hundreds of rare interviews over a six-year period, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens, including an HIV-infected teenager living outside Johannesburg and a homeless orphan in Cape Town. This is the long-awaited, revisionist account of a country whose recent history has been not just neglected but largely ignored by the West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture: Baleka Uzohaqwa; title: Part I. Tomorrow's country; title: The chief; title: The thief; title: The rival; title: The chroniclers; title: The doctor; title: The city; title: The grandson; title: Part II. The stalled revolution; title: Inside; title: Outside; title: Upside down; title: On the air; title: On the ground; title: Part III. The pivotal year; title: Cape town; title: Atlantis; title: Johannesburg; title: Orange farm; title: Nkandla; title: Polokwane; title: Mvezo; title: Part IV. The end of magical thinking; title: The globe; title: The prisoner; title: The cup; title: Liberated people; title: The leader; title: Coda: freedom day.