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“... with which to conceive their sexuality and no forum in which to express it. I had crossed a border.Mark Gevisser’s ‘pink line’ is a shifting frontier, separating ‘those parts of the world that have come to the point of accepting the existence (and equality) of people who deviate from sexual or gender norms, and those … that continue to deny ...”

“... bravely but there is a lot more reality out there with which he has yet to deal. It is, however, Mark Gevisser’s vast biography of Mbeki (reduced, apparently, from a manuscript twice the size) that bears the heaviest teeth-marks of ANC piety. The book undoubtedly contains an enormous amount of useful information about the modern history of the ...”

“... little rooms with a sink and a toilet’ in the words of the South African journalist Mark Gevisser in his memoir Lost and Found in Johannesburg.2 No shared walls between white master and black servant, above all no shared ablution facilities across racial lines, which suggests that, for apartheid, it is above all the races’ body fluids and ...”

“... post-colonial Africa. The rise of Thabo Mbeki was a further, fatal element. Mbeki’s biographer, Mark Gevisser, presented a more complicated – and more plausible – character than Johnson’s crazed czar. Johnson sees Mbeki as race-obsessed, ruthless and mad. Nelson Mandela, who shuffles in and out of this account as an amiable old buffer only ...”