The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about Modise throughout the ANC’s three decades as an underground liberation movement with an armed wing.

Gordhan took his strategic political orientation and deep commitment to non-racialism into the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, the post-apartheid parliament, the South African Revenue Service, into Cabinet and into his fight against state capture.

Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died