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Witness to Power
- A Political Memoir
Engelsk
Bogcover for Witness to Power af Mathews Phosa, 9781776093953
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781776093953
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
177609395X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 23,5 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2024
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Witness to Power

- A Political Memoir
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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Mathews Phosa has been an eyewitness to the dramatic shifts of political power in South Africa. He was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement, the UDF and the ANC, before fleeing into exile in 1985 and becoming an uMkhonto weSizwe commander in Mozambique. A lawyer by training, he was one of the first ANC members to return to South Africa to prepare the way for negotiations. He was premier of Mpumalanga during the presidency of Nelson Mandela, with whom he had a strong relationship. Under Thabo Mbeki, whom he had known in exile, Phosa was pushed to the sidelines, with false accusations that he was involved in a ‘plot’ to overthrow the president. Phosa had served under Jacob Zuma as an MK field commander in Mozambique, and he became treasurer-general of the ANC when Zuma became its president at Polokwane. But Phosa later became a vocal critic of Zuma, and they didn’t speak for years, until the night before Zuma’s resignation. Phosa and Cyril Ramaphosa had studied law together at the University of the North in the 1970s, and fifty years later Phosa played a key role in advising him over the Phala Phala report that threatened to end his presidency. Witness to Power is a gripping story of underground activities, military operations, negotiations, political conflict and intrigue. It provides fascinating new insights into the ruling party and its leaders by an ANC elder who worked with them all
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781776093953
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
177609395X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 23,5 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2024
Forfatter(e):
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