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A discredit to South Africa's liberation movement
Ronnie Kasrils's book on disgraced ex-president Jacob Zuma lifts the lid on the scandals and controversies surrounding his time in office, says JOHN HAYLETT
Former South African president Jacob Zuma
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The debut novel by Uruguayan Eugenia Ladra, and poetry by Gerardo Diego
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New releases from Zulu Guitar Blues, Fela Kuti, and Amadou & Mariam
IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music
SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship
A Simple Man
by Ronnie Kasrils
(Jacana, £16.95)
THIS book's title might convey the impression that it is a biography by the former head of intelligence in South Africa’s liberation movement armed wing uMKhonto we Sizwe (MK) about his comrade-in-arms Jacob Zuma.
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