SOUL OF A NATION, a quest for the rebirth of South Africa's values

200pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

"Provides pathways to return to the values that once informed African dignity and defines our identity as glorious people. A tour de force!" Xolela Mangcu, editor of The Colour of our Future, does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa

"If the book's purpose is to force every reader to reflect on the dizzying heights from which a nation that discards its founding values can fall, then it succeeds with great aplomb." Redi Tlhabi, author of Endings & Beginnings

South African lawyer, business executive and political commentator Oyama Mabandla left South Africa when he was 17 to join the ANC in exile. Chairman of the Council of Advisers at The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, he lives in Johannesburg.