I want to take you on though to a slightly more sobering moment for me anyway. You write about a young A and C official who was then one of the bright young things in the movement. The years haven't been so good to his reputation. And I guess I'd just wonder whether you found it almost cathartic given the difficulties that South Africa is facing now. But but it is your next book, Justice. It's got to be Muhammad Ali.
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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