God, Spies and Lies : Finding South Africa’s Future Through Its Past – John Matisonn

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An insider’s account of how South Africa got to where it is today – and how things went wrong. It takes you into the room with Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, into the Oval Office of the US President and the British Prime Minister’s Chequers country estate, as the fate of southern Africa was being set before and after 1994. AMONG ITS REVELATIONS ARE: How Nelson Mandela studied the Afrikaner Broederbond as he set up the military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 • The apartheid spy who fooled the white liberal elite • What made President George Bush Senior change his mind about white rule in southern Africa • How Robert Mugabe fooled Mbeki’s intelligence service • Why South Africa missed the Information Economy • How Jacob Zuma came under the spell of the Chinese Communist Party • What the 2015 student protests mean • What it would take to get the country back on track.

Trade Paperback, large format, clean and fresh internally, no ink inscriptions from previous owner, great illustrated cover (no dust wrapper, (didn’t come with one) Spine had no ends or creases, indeed a very good ++ copy

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SKU: 9780994670236 Category: Title: God, Spies and Lies : Finding South Africa's Future Through Its Past
Author: John Matisonn
Publisher: Missing Ink
Year: 2015
ISBN10: 0994670230
ISBN13: 9780994670236
Condition: Very Good
Format: Trade Paperback
Inventory No: 1170

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An insider’s account of how South Africa got to where it is today – and how things went wrong. It takes you into the room with Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, into the Oval Office of the US President and the British Prime Minister’s Chequers country estate, as the fate of southern Africa was being set before and after 1994. AMONG ITS REVELATIONS ARE: How Nelson Mandela studied the Afrikaner Broederbond as he set up the military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 • The apartheid spy who fooled the white liberal elite • What made President George Bush Senior change his mind about white rule in southern Africa • How Robert Mugabe fooled Mbeki’s intelligence service • Why South Africa missed the Information Economy • How Jacob Zuma came under the spell of the Chinese Communist Party • What the 2015 student protests mean • What it would take to get the country back on track.

Trade Paperback, large format, clean and fresh internally, no ink inscriptions from previous owner, great illustrated cover (no dust wrapper, (didn’t come with one) Spine had no ends or creases, indeed a very good ++ copy

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Weight 0.6 kg
Dimensions 23.3 × 15.2 × 1.5 cm

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