A brutally honest expose, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela s transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation s entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under Madiba to Thabo Mbeki s tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point...