“... unity for the five years following democratic elections – proposed in 1992 by the SACP leader, Joe Slovo. In this regard, the outrageous decision by the jury in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 jointly to Mandela and de Klerk, the forgiving victim and the penitent perpetrator, made perfect political sense. The apartheid regime was ...”

“... to a visible shrinkage, even an implosion, of the real influence of the Left. The signs abound: Joe Slovo and Chris Hani have disappeared and no one of their stature has emerged to replace them. The ANC Women’s League, a possible focus of dissent, has had its funds stopped and the Youth League has had its leadership changed and now heads the charge ...”

“... as part of an attempt to provoke a civil war: ‘an explosion of carnage and race war’, as Joe Slovo said at his funeral, ‘a massive spilling of blood and the end of negotiations’. (Instead the almost immediate consequence was that the ANC secured a date, 27 April 1994, for the elections.) Hani was 12 years old at the time. In the months after ...”