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THE INHERITORS: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning
Author: Eve Fairbanks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $27.99
Pages: 399
It was nothing short of a miracle — that was what South African school children were taught when Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic elections. Apartheid, the brutal system of white minority rule that made South Africa a global pariah, was over. As Eve Fairbanks writes in The Inheritors, her new book about the decades before and after that transition, its miraculousness “was like mathematics, amazing but incontrovertible.”
But Malaika, one of the central figures in this account,
