Now available in paperback. This volume brings together some of the most important speeches and interviews made by Thabo Mbeki since 1999, giving insights into his style of leadership and political ideology. An important collection for scholars and students of African politics. Index, 328pp, SOUTH AFRICA. TAFELBERG.

Portrays the South African President as a patriarchal chieftain, a romantic, a diplomat, and a pragmatist. B/w ill, notes, bib, 225pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS.

Explores the intellectual traditions and elaborates on the central ideas upon which Mbeki has governed. Having had unprecedented access to the President himself, Roberts was ideally and uniquely placed to write with sympathy about the South African President. 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS.

For nearly ten years - indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency - Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa's new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Reviews the achievements and failures of his incumbency and offers a glimpse of the post-Mbeki era. It is not a biographical account of Mbeki or an analysis of the ANC. Rather, it focuses on a simple question: has this most wealthy and powerful of sub-Saharan African countries prospered or weakened under Mbeki's stewardship? The book's four sections cover Mbeki's political, economic and social legacies, as well as what is likely to happen in a post-Mbeki future. 346pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Drawing on extensive interviews with the man, Gumede creates a compelling account of the South African president. Covers Mbeki's attempts to modernise the economy and kick-start an African Renaissance, and investigates his controversial stance on issues from AIDS to Zimbabwe. Index, notes, 368pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

By the time he retires in 2009, Thabo Mbeki will have ruled South Africa, in effect, for the full fifteen years of its post-apartheid democracy: the first five as Nelson Mandela's deputy and the next ten as his successor. No African leader since the uhuru generation of Nkrumah and Nyerere has been as influential. Mark Gevisser's long-awaited biography is a profound psycho-political examination of this brilliant but deeply-flawed leader, who has attempted to forge an identity for himself as the symbol of modern Africa in the long shadow of Mandela. It is also a gripping journey into the turbulent history and troubled contemporary soul of the country; one that tries to make sense of the violence of the past and confusion of the present. As Mbeki battles with his demons, AIDS denialism to Mugabe, this account tracks us back along the path that brought him here, and helps us understand the meaning of South Africa, post-apartheid and post-Mandela. Index, bib, notes, b/w & col photos, 892pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

A comprehensive study of Thabo Mbeki's evolving leadership and the government which will shape the future of South Africa. The authors offer critical perspectives on his ideology and the mythology which surrounds him. Also available in paperback. Index, bib, refs, xvii, 293pp. ZED BOOKS.