{"product_id":"the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-9781982149741","title":"The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"gripping and important\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's prot?g? by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall...until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela's popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-two-year-old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days--the protests and police brutality, reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat-ready--he was terrified the assassin's plot might succeed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Plot to Save South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, Malala \"masterfully\" (\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller, alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting, kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews, he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far-right elements within the South African government in inciting--or even planning--the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on, how \u003ci\u003edid \u003c\/i\u003ethese political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they'd long abhorred--despite provocation and their own failures, doubts, and fears--to keep their country from descending into civil war?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJustice Malala is one of South Africa's foremost political commentators and the author of the #1 bestseller \u003ci\u003eWe Have Now Begun Our Descent: How to Stop South Africa Losing its Way\u003c\/i\u003e. A longtime weekly columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(South Africa), he has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. The former publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe Sowetan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday World\u003c\/i\u003e, he now lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526149607698,"sku":"9781982149741","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_003bee4d-ce01-4e2d-8941-d30cb44233bc.jpg?v=1731262131","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-9781982149741","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}