The Fall of Apartheid

The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki

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by Robert Harvey

Palgrave

Due/Published November 2003, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 1403915741

The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story 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 narrative helps to illuminate not just the South African Problems but also more general issues of conflict- and problem-solving.

Contents

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