I think it's fair to say from having read your book that it's not as if Mandela made all the calls correctly, did he? He made the big ones ultimately. But what's so interesting is that he was a human being. And like many leaders, he's having to find his way. There were times in the days that followed when there must have been massive misgivings among people in the ANC about Mandela and what he was doing. It was an expeditionary nine, 10 days of that. I just wondered if you could say a little bit about that because the popular memory of that time is the killing of Chris Hani.
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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