The Plot to Save South Africa. Chris Hani's murder and the week Nelson Mandela averted civil war

2023. Softcover, 334 pages. Very good condition. 

A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandelas protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africas democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leaders popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South Africa, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the gripping story of the next nine days, as the government and Mandelas ANC seek desperately to restore the peace and root out just how far up into the countrys leadership the far-right plot goes. Told from the points of view of over a dozen characters on all sides of the conflict, Malala offers an illuminating look at successful leadership in action and a terrifying reminder of just how close a country we think of today as a model for racial reconciliation came to civil war.