South Africa is a country poorly understood in the wider world. There are two main views of the country that persist in the international consciousness and which are often propagated by South Africans themselves. One view holds that after the end of apartheid South Africa's problems were at an end. [...]
At last! For those who don't know their corvettes from their combat suites, this book's timing is deadly accurate. The Arms Deal's taint of corruption has hovered spectre-like over South African politics since Patricia de Lille's document hit Parliament in 1999, but the plethora of newspaper article[...]