Mail & Guardian A-Z of South African Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770090231 ISBN 13: 9781770090231

Publisher: Jacana Media, 2005

This lively reference work gives readers an under-the-skin look at the South Africa's political elite, including government officials, judges, priests, premiers, and powerful individuals.

About the Author:

Paul Stober is deputy editor and political editor of the Mail & Guardian.

Barbara Ludman, co-editor of all four editions of the A-Z of SA Politics, is a founder and a former associate editor of the Mail & Guardian.

The Mail & Guardian is the most influential newspaper in Southern Africa. It was founded in 1985, at the height of apartheid and of resistance to apartheid, and both the paper and its reporters have regularly won prizes for courageous journalism ever since. Among its awards: the University of Missouri’s medal of honour for distinguished service in journalism. It has also been honoured for its arts, science and technology, personal finance and environmental reporting; for courageous journalism; and its reporters have won several awards for investigative reporting.

Review:

'An extremely useful, even indispensable guide to the kaleidoscopic rush of events in contemporary South Africa.' - Patrick Laurence, The Star