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Justice Malala
Harvard Book Store welcomes JUSTICE MALALA—author of bestseller We Have Now Begun Our Descent: How to Stop South Africa Losing its Way—for a discussion of his new book The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation. He was joined in conversation by EVE FAIRBANKS—author of The Inheritors.
Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come?
In The Plot to Save South Africa, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the gripping story of the next nine days, as the government and Mandela’s ANC seek desperately to restore the peace and root out just how far up into the country’s leadership the far-right plot goes. Told from the points of view of over a dozen characters on all sides of the conflict, Malala offers an illuminating look at successful leadership in action and a terrifying reminder of just how close a country we think of today as a model for racial reconciliation came to civil war.
