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Fit to govern : the native intelligence of Thabo Mbeki / Ronald Suresh Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Ronald Suresh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mbeki, Thabo.
- African National Congress.
- Political leadership--South Africa.
- Political leadership.
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : STE, 2007.
- Summary:
- Instead of soul-searching, enigma-breaking or 'biography', call this book a displacement of certain fictions - an engagement with many of the myths that have piled themselves high around Thabo Mbeki. . .
- Known as a fearless writer, Ronald Suresh Roberts explores the President's intellectual traditions and elaborates on the central ideas out of which Mbeki and the ANC are governing South Africa. Fit to Govern examines the difficult issues (e.g. Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS, neo-colonialism) that have faced President Thabo Mbeki and casts fresh light on Mbeki's logic.
- With his wide knowledge of history, politics, literature and debates in South Africa's media - and having had unprecedented access to the President himself, Roberts in uniquely placed to write with authority about the President. His book places the President and South Africa in a global context, recognises the many challenges that inform government and celebrates South Africa's ongoing transformation.
- Fit to Govern is a compelling account of the intellectual traditions that inform the President's actions.
- Contents:
- 'A kind of farewell to monsters' 12
- Fit to govern 26
- Mother country 60
- Muscular liberalism 82
- Traditional contenders 106
- 'If men were Angels' 130
- Two nations? Zimbabwe and South Africa 152
- A clash of fundamentalisms I: The medical politics of AIDS 180
- A clash of fundamentalisms II: The racial politics of AIDS 212
- 'Massa day done' 242
- Natives and non-racialism 266
- Annexure 1 Why I joined the Communist Party - Thabo Mbeki 288
- Annexure 2 Eric Williams - biographical summary 292
- Annexure 3 Ronald Suresh Roberts: Notes from my carpetbag 294.
- ISBN:
- 1919855645
- 9781919855646
- OCLC:
- 148728063
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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