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Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred – Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser unpacks his book 'Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred' (Camera: Shadwyn Dickinson; Editing: Nicholas Boyd)

22nd August 2022

     

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In 2022, Thabo Mbeki turns 80. With an incisive new introduction and epilogue, Mark Gevisser brings this prize-winning biography fully up to date. He sees Mbeki’s spectacular fall from office as a consequence of the “disconnect” that has characterized his entire life.

But he also charts the “redemptive fifth act” of Mbeki’s public life, starting with the moment he was cheered at Nelson Mandela’s funeral at the same time that Jacob Zuma was booed, in 2013. Always a polarizing figure, Mbeki remains championed by many South Africans nostalgic about his leadership: Gevisser examines why.

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Mbeki often asks, paraphrasing one of his favourite poems by Langston Hughes. After his 2008 ousting, his own dreams seemed to have been shattered. In telling the story of one of South Africa’s most compelling, perplexing, and powerful figures—and the extraordinary family from which he comes—Gevisser has given us one of the finest narratives ever written about South Africa’s conflict-ridden past, its transition to democracy, and its current difficulties.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s foremost writers. He is the author of five works of non-fiction and his journalism has been widely published in South Africa and abroad. Mark has been a Writing Fellow at the University of Pretoria and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). Since 2018, he has been a judge on the Gerald Kraak Award for writing on gender, human rights and sexuality in Africa. He lives in Cape Town.

Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred is published by Jonathan Ball Publishers

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