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Apartheid - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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Apartheid - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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Price R278
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The one thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South
Africa's past – most especially the nearly five decades of
division and conflict at the heart of one of the twentieth
century's most infamous social experiments. Apartheid, an
illustrated history is a portrait of the defining experience of
modern South Africa's transition from colonial state to democracy.
What began in May 1948 as a vague, grimly ambitious project to
interrupt history and engineer white supremacy at the expense of
the country's black majority spawned forty-six years of repressive
authoritarianism and bitter resistance which claimed the lives of
thousands and pushed the country to the brink of civil conflict. A
provocative postscript examines apartheid's stubborn afterlife in
the years since 1994, suggesting that the optimism and democratic
vitality of the constitutional state hinge on South Africans
avoiding simplistic views of the past that might lend themselves to
demagoguery. For all its catastrophic and lingering effects, the
book concludes, apartheid was disarmed, ultimately, by the
society's much longer history of inseparability. Journalist Michael
Morris draws on the work of scholars and historians as well as
contemporary reporting in an unsentimental and highly readable
account, vividly complemented by photographs and cartoons.
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