GOVAN MBEKI, a Jacana pocket biography

168 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2012

A brief biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), African National Congress, Umkhonto we Siswe and South African Communist Party leader and Rivonia trialist who spent over 23 years on Robben Island.

South African historian Colin Bundy recently retired as Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He was Vice Rector of the University of the Western Cape (1994-97), Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (1997-2001), Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of London (2003-06) and Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2001-06).