Media events and South African national identity -- Events envy : South Africa's exclusion from the media events of the '60s, '70s and '80s -- The Shamanizing Ayatollah : Mandela and the dismantling of apartheid -- Disrupting the centre : 'liveness' and the negotiation of disaster during the transition -- The televised birth of the rainbow nation : the election and Mandela's inauguration -- Consolidation : South Africa's return to the global fold and the making of Madiba.