After the Party - the book

[marine1]

Anyone else read it?
It is current affairs IMO
It is amazing to see the story about Modise and Zuma as well.
It really seems that the whole ANC benefited from the ARMS deal.

It seems to me that Zuma is without doubt the wrong person to be leading the country.
I suggest you to go and read this book.

The last 30-40 pages are really interesting.

 

[semiautomatix]

I've been wanting to read this book for a while now. Maybe I'll go out and get myself a copy.

 

[dappled]

It's sitting next to my bed. Every now and then i pick it up and browse through a chapter, read a few pages. It's heavy stuff:

After The Party jacket blurb:

Andrew Feinstein became an active – and ardent – member of the ANC in the 1980s, and campaigned energetically for the party in the first democratic elections. He was elected to parliament and rose swiftly through the ranks, earning the label ‘Mr Clean’ for his unstinting work against graft and corruption.

But his feelings of euphoria at being part of the new South Africa slowly soured. Initially disappointed by the constant jockeying for power and the denialist AIDS policy of President Thabo Mbeki, Feinstein’s disillusionment grew as he sought unsuccessfully to investigate the corruption surrounding the Arms Deal. Isolated from his former comrades, Feinstein was forced to choose between his principles and the party he had so admired. This is his story.

Andrew Feinstein was an ANC MP for more than seven years before resigning in protest at the party's handling of the multi-billion rand arms deal that was tainted by allegations of high-level corruption. After working in financial services he now writes, lectures and consults on public policy issues, particularly governance, leadership, corruption, diversity and AIDS. He also chairs an HIV & AIDS charity.

Much of what is going wrong [in South Africa], notably the ANC’s brutal war of succession and the ever growing nexus between business and politics, has its roots in the arms deal. – Mail & Guardian, January 2007

 

[Sneeky]

I recall hearing Andrew Feinstein on 702 a few weeks ago saying that there was a new book from him coming out following on from After the Party.

 

[marine1]

It is astonishing what the ANC did and continue to do.

 

[MidnightWizard]

Pointers

Anyone else read it?
The last 30-40 pages are really interesting.

There are a number of interesting indicators associated with this book

UCT , Kings College Cambridge , Berkeley , Rockefeller Foundation ( Who provided the funding )

I am suprised they left out the Tavistock


In the same ANC bashing mode you could read

RW Johnson's book South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid


Recently in the news because of a killer bacteria Historian cuts foot, loses leg

Sweet AFRICAN revenge some would say

Interestingly his wife is the academic and author Irina Filatova.

There are so many books out there now -- NO -- excuse for ignorance

MW

 

[Alan]

dunno if i could stomach a book by an anc supporting moron and the "they changed", "my principles" excuses bull****

 

[TonyHawk]

Where can I download the movie...