Nelson Mandela had been a walker and a very fit person before he went to prison in the early 1960s. He got up at 4 or 4.30 a.m. and by 5 a.m., he'd be taking a walk. The worst news possible is brought to him, so you then jump into a battered, probably sort of Toyota Corolla from the stir and head to the scene. You've recreated an extraordinary picture of what happened with your book Justice.
On Easter weekend 1993 Nelson Mandela was engaged in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk when a white supremacist shot Mandela’s heir-apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. On this episode of the podcast, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story of the pivotal nine days that followed Hani’s murder and the extraordinary effort of leadership that was needed to avert a crisis that could have developed into a full-scale war. Our host for this conversation is Alec Russell, Foreign Editor of the Financial Times.
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