In My Beginnings -- Dancing with Dialectics -- Into Politics -- The Battle for Houghton -- Present at the Creation -- New South Africa, New Leader -- Constitutional Palimpsest -- The Long AIDS Death March -- Zimbabwe: The Fire Next Door -- Parliament : Corrosion in the Corridors -- Judging the Judges -- Trawling the Media -- Tangling with 'The Lady' -- Fighting Back -- Blowback -- A Marriage Made in Hell -- Darkest before Dawn -- Against Goliath -- Cape Hope? -- Exit -- Future Imperfect.