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Don Makatile Reviews Govan Mbeki: A Jacana Pocket Biography by Colin Bundy

Govan Mbeki: A Jacana Pocket BiographyVerdict: stick

As a biographer, Colin Bundy had a long [and fruitful?] relationship with the late Govan Mbeki, a political leader who was one of the leading lights of South Africa’s African National Congress and a father to the country’s ex-President Thabo Mbeki . Correspondence between them stretched back to the days when it was still unfashionable to write letters to the ‘terrorists’ incarcerated on Robben Island.
Granted this is a ‘pocket book’ – whatever that is, but one gets the sense that Mbeki either said very little or Bundy did not ask much.

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