Christmas with Nelson Mandela: A journalist’s eyewitness account of SA’s first democratic years
Daily Maverick | 01.07.2026 14:00
Journalist Adrian Hadland had a box of cuttings and papers sitting in his wardrobe for close to 20 years, full of writing, columns and words about an extraordinary period in South Africa’s history: the Government of National Unity presided over by Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999. In Christmas with Nelson Mandela, he transforms that personal archive into a book. Here is an excerpt.
