The Last Afrikaner Leaders
The Last Afrikaner Leaders

Author: Hermann Giliomee

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 0813934958

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Finalist for the Alan Paton Award In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the role of Nationalist leaders and of their outspoken critic Frederick van Zyl Slabbert. What motivated each of the last Afrikaner leaders, from Verwoerd to de Klerk? How did each try to reconcile economic growth, white privilege, and security with the demands of an increasingly assertive black leadership and unexpected population figures? In exploring each leader’s background, reasoning, and personal foibles, Giliomee takes issue with the assumption that South Africa was inexorably heading for an ANC victory in 1994. He argues that historical accidents radically affected the course of politics. Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history that attempts not to condemn but to understand why the last Afrikaner leaders did what they did, and why their own policies ultimately failed them. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Reconsiderations in Southern African History

The Afrikaners
The Afrikaners

Author: Hermann Giliomee

Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9781850657149

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This work is a biography of the Afrikaner people by historian and journalist Herman Giliomee, one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid. Weaving together life stories and historical interpretation, he creates a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond.

Fortunes
Fortunes

Author: Ebbe Dommisse

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781776191468

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A comprehensive work based on personal interviews and insider knowledge - bound to become a classic.

Anatomy of a Miracle
Anatomy of a Miracle

Author: Patti Waldmeir

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780813525822

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The late 1980s were a dismal time inside South Africa. Mandela's African National Congress was banned. Thousands of ANC supporters were jailed without charge. Government hit squads assassinated and terrorized opponents of white rule. Ordinary South Africans, black and white, lived in a perpetual state of dread. Journalist Patti Waldmeir evokes this era of uncertainty in Anatomy of a Miracle, her comprehensive new book about the stunning and-historically speaking-swift tranformation of South Africa from white minority oligarchy to black-ruled democracy. Much that Waldmeir documents in this carefully researched and elegantly written book has been well reported in the press and in previous books. But what distinguishes her work is a reporter's attention to detail and a historian's sense of sweep and relevance. . . .Waldmeir has written a deeply reasoned book, but one that also acknowledges the power of human will and the tug of shared destiny."-Philadelphia Inquirer

An African Volk
An African Volk

Author: Jamie Miller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0190274832

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An African Volk explores how the apartheid state sought to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a new post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy.

Knowledge in the Blood
Knowledge in the Blood

Author: Jonathan D. Jansen

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0804761949

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Discusses how white South African students learn and confront their Apartheid past, and explores how this knowledge transforms both the students and the author, the first black dean of an historically white university.

Apartheid
Apartheid

Author: Edgar H. Brookes

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-10-05

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1000624412

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Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela

Author: Zelda la Grange

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0147516277

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“An important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all.”—President Bill Clinton There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, La Grange, a white Afrikaner, feared the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet she would become one of his most devoted associates for almost two decades. Inspiring and deeply felt, this book honors a great man’s lasting gift.

The Super-Afrikaners
The Super-Afrikaners

Author: Ivor Wilkins

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1868425363

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The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in South Africa in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of a powerful Afrikaner organisation called the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this new edition is available for a new generation and includes an introduction by Max du Preez. Formed in Johannesburg in 1918 by a group of young Afrikaners disillusioned by their role as dispossessed people in their own country, the first triumph of this remarkable organisation was the fact that it was largely responsible for welding together dissident factions within Afrikanerdom and thereby ensuring the accession of the National Party to power in 1948. This highly organised clique of Super-Afrikaners, by sophisticated political intrigue, waged a remarkable campaign to harness political, social and economic forces in South Africa to its cause ... and succeeded. Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from its earliest days. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.