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In The Plot to Save South Africa, Malala ?masterfully? (Foreign Affairs) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller, alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting, kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews, he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far-right elements within the South African government in inciting?or even planning?the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on, how did these political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they?d long abhorred?despite provocation and their own failures, doubts, and fears?to keep their country from descending into civil war?