In this gripping social history of South Africa, award winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to make sense of the struggle's legacy and understand the future of the country under new President Jacob Zuma. With unparalleled access to Mbeki a[...]
An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions
This singular memoir begins with a transgression--the invasion of a private home in Johannesburg. But it is far more than the story of a theft. "Lost and Found in Johannesburg" is a lum[...]
As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that involved sitting in his father's parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden's Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way[...]