Tom Lodge obituary

Tom Lodge was a lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand for much of his career. Photograph: Karen Muldowney

As a writer and academic, my brother, Tom Lodge, who has died aged 72, was an expert on the modern politics of South Africa. His many works included Mandela: A Critical Life (2006), a biography of Nelson Mandela that was described as “riveting” by Desmond Tutu and “authoritative and open minded” by the Economist.

Among his other books were Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 (1983); Consolidating Democracy (1999); South African Politics Since 1994 (1999), and Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences (2011).