A closer look at the ‘saint and the sinner’
Jan Smuts and Nelson Mandela were flawed founders called on to build a broken nation
05 December 2024 - 05:00
When Roger Southall launched Smuts & Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa at Ike’s bookshop in Durban he met a young man, probably no older than 20, apparently without much education but eager to learn and with an obvious love for books and reading.
“Mandela he was familiar with,” says Southall. But who was this Smuts? ..
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