After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.

A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela’s transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela f...