Neville Alexander (1936–2012)

Neville Alexander was one of South Africa's leading intellectuals and independent, critical voices; a prophet rather than a politician. As the South African economist Francis Wilson has said, the uncomfortable questions which he raised and the answers with which he wrestled will be exercising the mostra altro minds of South Africans with increasing urgency both in the immediate and in the long-term future of this country. In this collection of essays, which he had compiled and revised for publication shortly before his death in 2012, he returned to some of the core concerns of his life as a political activist and a scholar. mostra meno