Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo (1955–1991), who had one of the sharpest Marxist-Leninist minds of South Africa’s liberation movement, was brilliant, fierce, and forgotten ... until now.

Mandla J. Radebe restarts a conversation that Mzala started decades ago, but is just as relevant today: Can South Africa, haunted by state capture, fractured alliances, resurgent ethnonationalism, and a ruling class that made peace with neoliberalism, transcend its unfinished revolution?

CONTENTS: A Revolutionary Life Cut Short.Forging the Revolutionary Pen.Mzala Nxumalo and the People's War.Education and Culture as Pillars of Revolutionary Transformation.Mzala and the International Balance of Forces in the Struggle for Socialism.The Battle of Ideas in Defense of the NDR.AIDs and the Struggle Against Imperial Misinformation.The Lost Prince and the Unfinished Revolution.