Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma

by Alec Russell

Book Overview

Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice, as it prepares to elect Jacob Zuma as president -- signaling a potential slide back to the bad old days of post-colonial African leadership, and disaster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586487388
• ISBN13: 9781586487386
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"