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Birth - The Conspiracy To Stop The '94 Election (Paperback)
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Birth - The Conspiracy To Stop The '94 Election (Paperback)
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List price R270
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** Named one of the 'Best Reads' of 2010 by The Times **In the
early 1990s South Africa was repetitively rocked by violent
incidents that often threatened to derail the delicate peace
process and negotiations for a new state. Among these was a
right-wing conspiracy to ruin the 1994 election by staging a coup d
etat from the northwest of the country, aided by mutinous elements
in the SA Defence Force. Harris relates grippingly how some of the
biggest bombs in the country 's history were exploded in the then
Transvaal, and, with moving sympathy, the desperate plight of the
right-wingers in their pitiful invasion of the then homeland of
Bobhuthatswana.But the biggest drama was perhaps the attempt to
break into the electronic counting system of the election, for
whose supervision Harris was responsible. Harris has one at the
edge of one 's seat as he tells of the drama behind the scenes,
eleventh-hour meetings with Mandela and de Klerk, the plans to make
the results flow again, and of how closely the country steered away
from disaster and ended giving itself a miracle result.
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