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In his riveting new book, Future Tense, Tony Leon captures and analyses recent South African history, with a focus on the squandered and corrupted years of the past decade. With unique access and penetrating insight, Leon presents a portrait of today's South Africa and prospects for its future, based on his political involvement over thirty years with the key power players: Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and FW de Kle...

Tony Leon is not only an experienced politician but also a talented writer, and this book is the highly readable result of that combination.'' - Lord William Hague, former British Foreign Secretary and Conservative Party leader ''Anyone who wants to understand South Africa today - a country so beautiful, yet so broken - simply has to read this book.'' - Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of MoneyIn his riveting new book, Future Tense, Tony L...

Tony Leon has written a book of unique insight into an unexplored aspect of the presidency and leadership of Nelson Mandela. Opposite Mandela relates the untold stories of how South Africa's first democratic president related to his political opponents. Leon served as leader of the Democratic Party during Mandela's presidency. Although they clashed, sometimes fiercely, on great issues of the day, Leon enjoyed an unusually warm relationship wit...