Thabo scheme biography books
In this book, Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn, the journalists who first exposed the scam, tell the full story, from Thabo and Nandipha's....
The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid.
This insightful study, now completely revised and in its second edition, examines the pattern of politics that has emerged in South Africa under the Mandela.
Yet the family saw its favourite son, Thabo, rise to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was ousted by his own party and his legacy is bitterly contested - particularly over his handling of the AIDS epidemic and the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Through the story of the Mbeki family, award-wining journalist Mark Gevisser tells the gripping tale of the last tumultuous century of South Africa life, following the family's path to make sense of the liberation struggle and the future that South Africa has inherited.
At the centre of the story is Mbeki, a visionary yet tragic figure who led South Africa to freedom but was not able to overcome the difficulties of his own dislocated life. It is 15 year