{"product_id":"the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-paperback","title":"The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustice Malala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"gripping and important\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall...until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela's popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-two-year-old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days--the protests and police brutality, reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat-ready--he was terrified the assassin's plot might succeed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Plot to Save South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, Malala \"masterfully\" (\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller, alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting, kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews, he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far-right elements within the South African government in inciting--or even planning--the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on, how \u003ci\u003edid \u003c\/i\u003ethese political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they'd long abhorred--despite provocation and their own failures, doubts, and fears--to keep their country from descending into civil war?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustice Malala is one of South Africa's foremost political commentators and the author of the #1 bestseller \u003ci\u003eWe Have Now Begun Our Descent: How to Stop South Africa Losing its Way\u003c\/i\u003e. A longtime weekly columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(South Africa), he has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. The former publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe Sowetan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday World\u003c\/i\u003e, he now lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.38 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47504888823986,"sku":"9781982149741","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/hrlB2sh4ci9781982149741_4d8fc558-af96-4fe3-8703-19a01447e16f.webp?v=1779516178","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}