EPISODE · Jul 17, 2023 · 56 MIN
The Plot to Save South Africa
from The Short Fuse Podcast · host Elizabeth Howard - Host, Alex Waters - Technical Producer and Audio Engineer
Justice Malala is one of South Africa’s foremost political commentators and the author of the #1 bestseller We Have Now Begun Our Descent: How to Stop South Africa Losing its Way. A longtime weekly columnist for The Times (South Africa), he has also written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Financial Times, among other outlets. The former publisher of The Sowetan and Sunday World, he now lives in New York.
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in this episode, Elizabeth Howard is in conversation with Justice Malala about the nine days in 1993 when South Africa was on the brink of civil war, following the assassination of Chris Hani, a beloved Black leader and Mandela Protege. In his new book, The Plot to Save South Africa, Malala shares his perspective, thirty years later, of what it was like as a twenty-two-year-old rookie journalist, who was one of the first on the scene after Hani's murder by a white supremacist. An insightful conversation with lessons for contemporary leaders.
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