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Prologue PROLOGUE
They made us work on Holy Saturday because we were the rookies. I didn’t mind. I was twenty-two, a gangly kid from a South African backwater, and all I wanted to do was work.

The newsroom was empty when I walked into our offices on 47 Sauer Street, Johannesburg, at 9 a.m.

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on Saturday, April 10, 1993. It was my first day as a reporter at one of the most prestigious English-language daily newspapers in South Africa, the Star. Over the next nine days I would end up witnessing the greatest story of my life. It was a story that would bring together a man who has been called the world’s last great hero, his fierce opponent, and a whole group of characters across the country’s political and racial divide to save the emerging new South Africa from collapse and civil war.

I wasn’t even a proper rookie.

I was in the third month of my six-month training at the journalism program run by the paper, a floor down from the newsroom where my hero Review: The Plot to Save South Africa – Must Read Books LEMI