South Africa

Nancy L. Clark is the DeGrummond Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Her publications include Manufacturing Apartheid: State Corporations in South Africa (1994). William H. Worger is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his publications include South Africa’s City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895 (1987). Together they have edited Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Volume 1: From the Slave Trade to Conquest, 1441-1905, (2010) and Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present, (2010).

List of plates

List of figures

List of tables

Maps

Chronology

Who’s who

PART ONE SETTING THE SCENE

1 INTRODUCTION

Historiography

2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The peoples of South Africa

The creation of South Africa: the South African War and its aftermath

Union and segregation

The African response

The rise of Afrikanerdom

PART TWO ANALYSIS

3 THE BASIS OF APARTHEID

Why apartheid?

The implementation of apartheid

Early apartheid legislation

Challenge and repression

The ‘grand apartheid’ solution

4 GROWING CONTRADICTIONS

The impact of apartheid

The failure of grand apartheid

Essential workers: the failure of labour control

Bantu education and black consciousness

The apartheid police state

The total strategy

From failure to reform?: The 1983 constitution

5 THE COLLAPSE OF APARTHEID

Reform and repression

Insurrection

Negotiation

PART THREE ASSESSMENT

6 THE LEGACY OF APARTHEID

PART FOUR DOCUMENTS

1 Manifesto of the ANC Youth League, 1944

2 Verwoerd explains apartheid, 1950

3 Mandela speaks on the need to challenge apartheid, 1953

4 Mrs. Dumani describes how segregationist and apartheid laws destroyed her family, 1957

5 The Freedom Charter, 1955

6 Frances Baard describes how women organised to protest
the pass laws, 1956

7 Robert Sobukwe, ‘My Idea of Africa in 1973’, 1959

8 Stephen Biko explains ‘black consciousness’, 1971

9 Dan Montsisi testifies as to the origins of the Soweto uprising, 1976

10 Dan Montsisi is tortured by the police, 1977

11 An ordinary policeman explains his involvement in the killing of Stephen Biko, 1977

12 Declaration of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983

13 Margaret Friedman speaks about the assassination of her partner, Dr. David Webster, and her search for his killers, 1989.

14 F.W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the ANC and the freeing of Mandela, 1990

15 Eugene de Kock talks about killing people, 1990

16 Nelson Mandela cautions that the struggle for freedom remains to be won, 1990

17 Mandela speaks of freedom attained, at his inauguration as president of South Africa, 1994

Glossary

Guide to Further Reading

References

Index