The last Afrikaner leaders : a supreme test of power /
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 R...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville, VA :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
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| Edition: | First University of Virginia Press edition. |
| Series: | Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a tragic dilemma
- An extraordinary country
- An extraordinary professor and the 'Cape Nats'
- "The most terrific clash of interests imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's response
- Denying Blacks South Africans citizenship: John Vorster's empire
- Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's foreign schemes
- PW Botha and 'power sharing without losing control'
- A crossing suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon
- Van Zyl Slabbert: the golden boy and the black prince
- 'The risk of not taking risks': ending empire
- Time for a 'quantum leap': FW de Klerk's venture
- 'Paddling into dangerous rapids': drafting a new constitution
- A record of understanding
- A wary military
- Negotiating the NP out of power.
