Thabo Mbeki : the dream deferred / Mark Gevisser.

"First published in the USA in 2009 under the title A legacy of liberation by Palgrave Macmillan, New York"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Thabo Mbeki and the dream deferred -- The Mbekis: The "Black Jews" of the frontier -- The Moeranes: Chekov in the Transkei -- The new Africans -- Mbewuleni: "A place of seed" -- Family -- : Queenstown: The African springtime orchestra -- Lovedale "Africa's best and brightest" -- Fatherhood -- Johannesburg: fringe country -- Becoming a communist: "an honour bestowed upon me" -- Into exile -- Sussex man -- Favorite son -- Swinging London: old left, new left -- Moscow man -- "Not quite home": Lusaka and marriage -- Swaziland: front line -- Govan and Epainette -- The disappearance of Jama Mbeki -- Nigeria: "the real Africa": -- The national interferer -- Party man -- The diplomat -- The seducer -- Parallel paths to power -- Reunions -- Coming home -- Sidelining -- Into power -- Transition: the battle over the economy -- The arms deal: South Africa's poisoned well -- Mandela and Mbeki: "one good native" -- Mbeki and AIDS: "yes, we are diseased!" -- Mbeki and Zimbabwe: "red-telephone diplomacy -- Home -- Cariolanus at Polokwane: the fall of Thabo Mbeki.

Hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as ‘probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid’, The Dream Deferred is back in print and updated with a brilliant new epilogue. The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid.

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