Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South AfricaThe 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 |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
PART ONE APARTHEID AGONISTES | 5 |
The Myth of the Monolith | 9 |
The Age of Contradictions | 22 |
To the Rubicon and Beyond | 39 |
PART TWO NEGOTIATED REVOLUTION | 59 |
The Great Seduction | 63 |
Secret Mission | 86 |
Siamese Twins | 141 |
The Third Man and the Third Force | 153 |
Rollercoaster Revolution | 176 |
The Darkest Hour | 191 |
The End of History | 206 |
Battling for the Right | 222 |
Bake Bread Not Slogans | 237 |
LIFE AFTER APARTHEID | 249 |
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