Terrible but cleansing fires. The 'council of war' at Kabwe
'Will comrade King Sabata please come to the microphone'
A new dimension of strategy and analysis
The backroom think tank on the frontline. A historic gathering in a builder's yard off a sanitary lane in Lusaka
'KK'; 'OR' and comrade Jack
The quartet in Sheki-Sheki Road: the core of the Constitution Committee
The two insiders from outside Lusaka
Translating the vision of the Freedom Charter into a constitutional document
The skeleton
Building the foundations of government. Joe Slovo's misgivings
A call for clear political guidance
Confidential and urgent: opening up channels with lawyers from home
The dilemma
"The foundations of government'
The leadership has its say
Oliver Tambo meets Mikhail Gorbachev
The chief checks in and Skweyiya presses ahead
Designing the platform for a new kind of politics: broad-front strategies and the finalisation of the Constitutional Guidelines. 'How do you speak to an archbishop?'
Encounters in Dakar
Assassination in Swaziland
Harare, Arusha, Amsterdam
NADEL broadens the anti-racist legal front
Constitution Committee plans in cold storage
NEC debate: to negotiate or not to negotiate?
Tambo's special Christmas gift
The SG calls the cadres to Lusaka
'For your unconstrained appraisal': the in-house seminar
The Constitutional Guidelines and talks about 'Talks about talks'. Cuito Cuanavale
Murder in Paris and a car bomb in Maputo
'Only free men can negotiate'
The Consgold talks and the Constitutional Guidelines: round one
The Consgold talks and the Constitutional Guidelines: round two
The Guidelines move to centre stage, 1989
'The Rendez Vous with destiny'. Taking charge of 'what needs to be done in our country'
The Harare Declaration
A revolution within the revolution
'Eight is not enough!': the final push and an unexpected announcement
Coming home. Return of the first exiles
Last meeting in Lusaka
A soft landing in Cape Town
Tambo arrives home
Afterword: 'Freedom and bread'.