Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s leading journalists. His latest book, “A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream is published by Palgrave Macmillan in the USA and UK, and by Jonathan Ball in South Africa under the title, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred. The book won the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize and the NB Books 2008 Recht Malan Prize. The book has been lauded by the Times Literary Supplement as “probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid” and by the BBC’s Fergal Keane as “the indispensable and definitive account of post-apartheid South Africa.” Mark is currently writer-in-residence, University of Pretoria, where he teaches in the journalism programme.
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