‘Well written, immaculately researched must read. A focus of debate for years to come’ writes Terry Bell about John Matisonn’s God Spies and Lies.
“For a couple of months in the near perfect summer of 1990/1991, Jacob Zuma came to stay in my house in Norwood, Johannesburg… Twenty five years later, my former house guest has all but morally bankrupted Nelson Mandela’s ruling African National Congress. President Zuma’s vision-free leadership, corrupt personal behaviour and attempts to use his political power to distort the judicial system render him no better than Italy’s corrupt bunga-bunga partying ex-prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.”
So begins GOD, SPIES AND LIES, Finding South Africa’s future though its past, an explosive insider’s account of how South Africa got here.
It takes you into the room with Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, into the Oval Office of the US President and the British Prime Minister’s Chequers country, to understand what South Africa got right – and why it went wrong.
[And taking you right up to date, see South Africa’s Most Powerful Man by John Matisonn in the Daily Maverick.]GOD, SPIES AND LIES, Finding South Africa’s future though it past, Published by Missing Ink, Price: R290.00. Available in all good SA book stores, Ebook available on Amazon, US$24.90.
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