After the Party

With an insider's account of the events surrounding the contentious trial of ANC President Jacob Zuma, After the Party is the most important book on South Africa since the end of apartheid. - by Andrew Feinstein

Published 2009 by Verso pp 301 ISBN 13:978-1-84467-356-9

Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's uncertain future.

After the Party is an explosive account of the power struggle currently dominating South African politics, and a crucial analysis of the ANC's record in power. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC member of parliament, recounts how Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki repressed debate within the party, imposed his AIDS denialism on government, refused to criticise Robert Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe and stopped an investigation of a multi-billion dollar arms deal that was tainted by allegations of high-level graft. Feinstein shows how this infamous deal epitomises all that is rotten at the heart of the ANC. Investigating the payment of up to $200 million worth of bribes, he reveals a web of concealment and corruption involving senior politicians and officials, and figures at the very highest level of South African politics.