Trade unionist Clements Kadalie, anti-apartheid activist Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool and journalist John Fairbairn were highlighted as among the memorable people mentioned in ‘Spoilt Ballots’, a new book by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall.
South Africa has a fascinating history, but history has been made inaccessible, said author Nick Dall during a webinar on Thursday, 14 April.webinar was hosted by journalist Rebecca Davis to discuss Dall and Matthew Blackman’s latest bookThe book traces 200 years of South African elections and is published by Penguin Random House South Africa.
, they came across plenty of information about South Africa’s election history. “We saw the elections as turning points where things could have gone differently,” said Dall., Dall said while their first book was about correcting inaccurate information about corruption in South Africa, this new book was done more objectively.
When asked by Davis if there were any elections that took them by surprise, they pointed to those held in 1910 and in 1983.
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