1st Edition

Reassessing Mandela

Edited By Colin Bundy, William Beinart Copyright 2021
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela’s renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa, however, his legacy and his place in the country’s history have become matters of contention and dispute, especially amongst younger black South Africans. The essays in this book analyse aspects of... Read more

1. The Challenge of Rethinking Mandela

Colin Bundy

2. The Headman, the Regent and the 'Long Walk to Freedom'

Philip Bonner

3. Mandela: The Untold Heritage

Xolela Mangcu

4. Mandela and the Left

Tom Lodge

5. The M-Plan: Mandela’s Struggle to Reorient the African National Congress

Paul Landau

6. Mandela’s Army: Urban Revolt in South Africa, 1960–1964

Thula Simpson

7. News from Robben Island: Journalists’ Visits to Nelson Mandela during his Imprisonment

Martha Evans

8. The Impossible Contract: The Political and Private Marriage of Nelson and

Winnie Mandela

Shireen Hassim

9. Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa’s Transformative Constitution

Timothy Gibbs

10. Mandela and Beyond: Thinking New Possibility in the 21st Century

Elleke Boehmer

Biography

Colin Bundy has retired after a career as university academic and administrator. An historian, he is author of Nelson Mandela, a Jacana pocket biography.

William Beinart is Emeritus Professor, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, author of Twentieth-Century South Africa (OUP, 2001) and Rights to Land (with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay, Jacana, 2017). With Ed Teversham he wrote an A-level text on South Africa, 1948–94 (Pearson, 2015).