The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of Jacob Zuma, this is a major new history and an incisive look at the last two seminal decades in South African politics. With an astonishing reach and depth of research, the authors show which factors - the plots, the proxies and the power plays - tilted the balance towards the rent-seekers. How did the party became split between the looters and the constitutionalists? Who caved? And who stood firm?