Many people will have read and loved Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, the story of his life, and the freedom struggle, up to the end of apartheid in South Africa. In 1994 Mandela of course became the first president of a truly democratic South Africa. He started on a memoir of this time, but didn’t finish it. Mandla Langa, a respected South African journalist, has written this story of Mandela’s presidential years, using Mandela’s own notes. It’s an extraordinary story of a country in transition and the challenges Mandela faced as he strove to make his vision of a new South Africa a reality.
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