Mark Gevisser is a journalist at the Johannesburg Sunday Times and former correspondent for London's Mail & Guardian and The Nation. In 2008, he won the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize for the best non-fiction book of the year, and has also won the Recht Malan prize for non-fiction. He was educated at Yale University and received an MFA from Columbia University. He lives in South Africa.
South African politician Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki served almost two terms as the second democratically elected President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008.
This biography was last updated on 03/31/2009.
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