ANC TODAY LETTERS: The ideas and thoughts of President Thabo Mbeki, Volume 1, 2001-2004

: Ndlovu (S.) ed.

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716pp., illus., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2023

 

A collection of former President Thabo Mbeki's weekly ANC Today Letters, in which he expressed his opinions on current South African political and social issues.

Thabo Mbeki served as President of democratic South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress. Before that, he was Deputy President under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999.

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Research Professor at the University of South Africa and Executive Director of the South African Democracy Education Trust. His books include The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 and King Dingane ka Senzangakhona: the second monarch of the Zulu Kingdom. He co-authored Public History and Culture in South Africa: memorialisation and liberation heritage sites in Johannesburg and the township space and The Union of South Africa and the Soviet Union, fractured solidarity between the African Nationalist Movement, the Trade Union Movement, the Communist International and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1910-1961, and is editor-in-chief of the multi-volume series, The Road to Democracy in South Africa.