{"product_id":"the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-9781982149734","title":"The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Justice Malala\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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?","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45164222283927,"sku":"9781982149734","price":1899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781982149734.webp?v=1768572190","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-9781982149734","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}