Preface: Mandela and Mbeki: Two great lures for 'Republicans'
Chapter 1. What is 'greatness' exactly?: The peculiarities of Mandela and Mbeki
Chapter 2. What makes 'Republicans' Republicans?: 'We would still have choosen Frank and Lucille!'
Chapter 3. When Mandela and Mbeki descend wildly into 'novelistic' fiction 'Imagined communities' and the stereotypes of Calpurina and Julius Caesar
Chapter 4. 'Who first' and who is the 'martial captain' of the class? Of the 'commoners' and 'bourgeois' people
Chapter 5. 'This thing of us is more than a comrades' club': The 'medieval' mentality of the ANC
Chapter 6. 'The Prince William inheritance' of Thabo Mbeki: 'Oh by the way, I have decided that you will be my Deputy President'
Chapter 7. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't': 'Hyphenation', 'dehyphenation', and the 'modern presidency'
Chapter 8. Stuck on the wrong and right side of history: Why Mr Mbeki lost his Presidency and why Mr Mandela did not
Chapter 9. Reflections on the problems of paternal power and nostalgia: Why Mr Mbeki was clearly a 'patriarchalist' and why Mr Mandela was clearly a 'Republican'