Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story

Softcover. English. David Philip. 1998. 300pp Good condition in softcover. Foreword by Thabo Mbeki. In his foreword the Deputy President hails the telling at last, after years of confidentiality, of this remarkable story of a peace mission undertaken by a South African lawyer in the late 1980s, in the personal quest for a negotiated settlement between the national government of PW Botha and the ANC, in the hope of avoiding anarchy and civil war. Excepted secretly as an intermediary by State President PW Botha, and by the ANC outside the country, Richard Rosenthal engaged in two years of secret diplomacy.