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Songs and Secrets - South Africa from Liberation to Governance (Hardcover)
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Songs and Secrets - South Africa from Liberation to Governance (Hardcover)
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A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling
party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times: confrontation
between Thabo Mbeki and his then deputy Jacob Zuma; the dismissal
of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's defeat of Mbeki in ANC presidential
elections; and the recall of Mbeki as South African President, are
events that have left many ANC cadres politically and emotionally
aghast. Were these events the result of personal enmity? Was the
broad church that the ANC had become to unite all forces in the
struggle against apartheid beginning to break up? Or did the roots
lie in the global dynamic that allowed South Africa its freedom as
the Cold War cooled? Written in an anecdotal style, and with a
cinematic quality, Songs and Secrets explores these questions
through the viewfinder of a former high-ranking member of the ANC's
secret intelligence wing. It follows Gilder into the ANC's military
camps in Angola; to Moscow for spycraft training; to the
underground in Botswana; and into leadership positions in the
administration of the new government. Gilder's frank, compelling
memoir explores the personal, political, psychological and
historical realities that gave birth to the new South Africa, in
particular the oft-ignored conditions in which the ANC government
tried to turn apartheid around.
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