Verdict: carrot
Despite some shortcomings, the latest offering from the Jonathan Ball publishing stable, a biography of famed ANC and South African Communist Party warrior-scholar Chris Hani, is an important piece of work.
Gently narrated by Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp, it is a significant contribution to understanding arguably one of the most celebrated leaders to have come out of that broad and disparate church called the ANC.
It is important to state up front that on this score — barring some obvious gaps — Smith and Tromp succeed in giving the reader a beautifully crafted and, at times, powerful narrative on why the former general secretary of the SACP and chief of staff of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) is so revered.
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