{"product_id":"bring-me-my-machine-gun","title":"Bring Me My Machine Gun","description":"Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice, as it prepares to elect Jacob Zuma as president -- signaling a potential slide back to the bad old days of post-colonial African leadership, and disaster for a country that was once the beacon of the continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on his long relationships with all the key senior figures including Mandela, Mbeki, Desmond Tutu, and Zuma, and a host of South Africans he has known over the years -- including former activists turned billionaires and reactionary Boers -- Alec Russell's \u003ci\u003eBring Me My Machine Gun\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully told and expertly researched account of South Africa's great tragedy: the tragedy of hope unfulfilled.\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44788866056371,"sku":"9781586487386","price":1639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478019479781586487386.jpg?v=1762835285","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/bring-me-my-machine-gun","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}