Author: Tom Lodge
Publisher: Mets & Schilt
Keywords: mbeki, mandela, africa, south, politics
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2003-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864865058
ISBN-13: 9780864865052

With its focus on the presidencies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Politics in South Africa presents a critical balance sheet of the achievements and shortcomings of South Africa’s new democractic governments. Tom Lodge, one of South Africa’s most notable political commentators, sifts though media sources, reports, polls, and surveys to provide readers with an extensive record of contemporary history and politics in South Africa. Lodge examines the government’s successes and failures with instituting land reform, integrating local governments into national politics, counte

Author: Tom Lodge
Publisher: David Philip Publishers, South Africa
Keywords: mbeki, mandela, africa, south, politics
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0253215870
ISBN-13: 9780253215871

With its focus on the presidencies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Politics in South Africa presents a critical balance sheet of the achievements and shortcomings of South Africa’s new democractic governments. Tom Lodge, one of South Africa’s most notable political commentators, sifts though media sources, reports, polls, and surveys to provide readers with an extensive record of contemporary history and politics in South Africa. Lodge examines the government’s successes and failures with instituting land reform, integrating local governments into national politics, counte

Author: Dennis Abrams
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: leaders, world, modern, mbeki, thabo
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 079109443X
ISBN-13: 9780791094433

Thabo Mbeki has devoted his life to the people of South Africa, first as a courageous fighter against apartheid and currently as president of his beloved nation, helping to heal the wounds caused by decades of oppression. His success is even more astounding considering the seemingly insurmountable obstacles he encountered early in life: His activist father spent many years in prison because of his political beliefs. Close relatives disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. And Mbeki himself was forced to live in exile for nearly 30 years. What gave him the strength and determination t

Author: Andrew S. Reynold
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: mbeki, mandela, africa, south, election
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0312228716
ISBN-13: 9780312228712

South Africa’s second democratic election of June 2, 1999, was, for all its calmness, as momentous as the dramatic election of 1994 which installed Nelson Mandela and the ANC as the leaders of the first multiracial government in South Africa’s history. This book tells the story of the crucial 1999 general election through the eyes of leading South African and international experts. It summarizes the first five years of democratic government, the parties’ election campaigns, the final election results and the future prospects after Mandela.

Author: Mark Gevisser
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: south, african, dream, future, mbeki, liberation, thabo, legacy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0230611001
ISBN-13: 9780230611009

In this gripping social history of South Africa, award winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to make sense of the legacy of liberation struggle and understand the future of the country under Jacob Zuma. With unparalleled access to Mbeki and Zuma as well as key ANC brass, Gevisser presents an intimate yet accessible account of South Africa’s past, present and future. With his stunning account of the Mbeki family’s history as a backdrop, Gevisser fleshes out the very human elements of a monumental period in w