• LIBERATION AND CORRUPTION, why freedom movements fail

LIBERATION AND CORRUPTION, why freedom movements fail

: Hain (P.)

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301pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781776195374

 

First published in the UK in 2025.

Lifelong activist and politician Peter Hain explores why liberation and independence movements succumb to bad governance and corruption once their leaders are in government. He examines global examples from Africa to Latin America, Russia, the Caribbean, China and India.

"Hain shows that we need to invert colonially-rooted stereotypes about ubiquitous global corruption. Reproducing centuries-old power relations and systems of forceful extraction, the bulk of ill-gotten gains in Africa and elsewhere still flow almost inevitably to accounts in the global north." Professor André Odendaal, historian and Vice Chancellor’s Writer in Residence, University of the Western Cape

"Honest and credible about both the successes and the failings of liberation leaders." Mavuso Msimang, Deputy President of ANC Veterans and former ANC MK Underground Commander

Anti-apartheid campaigner and British politician Lord Peter Hain was born in 1950, grew up in Pretoria, and was forced into exile with his family in 1966. In 1969-1970, he led campaigns to stop all-white South African sports tours. Currently a Labour member of the House of Lords, he was a Labour MP from 1991-2015, a government minister for 12 years, a key negotiator of the 2007 Northern Ireland settlement, has served as Foreign Minister for Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and chaired the UN Security Council. In 2015 he received the OR Tambo National Award in Silver for his contribution to the freedom struggle. In 2017–18 he used parliamentary privilege to expose money laundering and corruption involving global corporates under then president Jacob Zuma, and gave evidence to the Zondo Commission. He is the author of 29 books, including Mandela: his essential life; Pitch Battles: protest, prejudice and play, and his memoir Outside In.

 

 

books include Pitch Battles: protest, prejudice and play, and his memoir Outside In.