Entries (RSS) Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki
With his wide knowledge of history, politics, literature and debates in South Africa’s media – and having had unprecedented access to the President himself, Roberts is uniquely placed to write with authority about the President. His book places the President and South Africa in a global context, recognises the many challenges that inform government and celebrates South Africa’s ongoing transformation. Instead of soul-searching, enigma-breaking or ‘biography’, call this book a displacement of certain fictions – an engagement with many of the myths and invidious discourses that have piled themselves high around Mbeki… Ronald Suresh Roberts |
