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Mark Gevisser
 Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s leading journalists. His latest book, A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream is published by Palgrave Macmillan in the USA and UK, and by Jonathan Ball Publishers in South Africa under the title, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred. The book won the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize and the NB Books 2008 Recht Malan Prize. The book has been lauded by the Times Literary Supplement as probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid and by the BBC’s Fergal Keane as the indispensable and definitive account of post-apartheid South Africa. After graduating from Yale in 1987 magna cum laude with a degree in comparative literature, Mark worked in New York, writing for Village Voice and The Nation before returning to South Africa in 1990. He is currently The Nation’s Southern African correspondent. In South Africa, his work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times and many magazines and periodicals. Internationally, he has published widely on South African politics, culture and society, in publications ranging from Vogue and the New York Times to Foreign Affairs and Art in America. Since 2002, Mark has also been involved in heritage development. He co-led the team that developed the heritage, education and tourism components of Constitution Hill, and co-curated the Hill’s permanent exhibitions. He is a founder and associate of Trace, a heritage research and design company. Mark also works as a political analyst; his clients have included several South African and multinational organisations and corporations. Mark is currently writer-in-residence, University of Pretoria, where he teaches in the journalism programme. He lives in France and South Africa with his partner. Extras Reviews, News & Interviews: |