The Fall of Apartheid
The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki
Published on 13. January 2016
XV, 257 pages
978-0-230-51058-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in Sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed. For the first time it reveals the full story of the secret meetings between Africans and Afrikaners in Britain, in which South Africa's current president, Thabo Mbeki, had a direct line to President Botha. Robert Harvey's fascinating narrative helps to illuminate not just the South African problems but also more general issues of conflict- and problem-solving.
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'...very interesting to read especially because of the wealth of quotations, fragments, and citations.' - Annelies Vergoolaege, H-Safrica
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06/2001
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ROBERT HARVEY is an author and journalist and a former Member of Parliament. He was an assistant editor of
The Economist
and leader writer and columnist on the
Daily Telegraph.
His recent publications include
Clive: The Rise and Fall of a British Emperor and Liberators
.
Content
Preface Introduction Prelude PART ONE: THE SELECT A Stranger in Stellenbosch A Seed of Hope The Broeders-Stormtroopers of Apartheid The Voksstaat The Mathematicians Afrikaner Darkness Afrikaner Caudillo The Rage PART TWO: TRIUMPH OF THE SOUL Romancing the Prisoner Punch, Counterpunch Most Secret Conduit The Mandela Imperative Hard Bargaining Breakthrough The Thatcher Opportunity The Fall of Botha Face to Face The De Klerk Revolution The White Collapse The Unravelling Endgame Index
