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The Commonwealth, South Africa, and Apartheid (Hardcover)
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The Commonwealth, South Africa, and Apartheid (Hardcover)
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This book explores the role of the modern Commonwealth in the
international campaign against apartheid in South Africa. Spanning
the period of South Africa's apartheid state, from its foundation
in 1948 until its ending in April 1994, the author demonstrates
that, after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre and South Africa's
subsequent exclusion from the Commonwealth, the organisation was
able to become both "pathfinder and interlocutor" on the road to
South Africa's freedom. As well as South Africa's ejection from the
Commonwealth, apartheid's increasing isolation was sustained by the
Commonwealth's pioneering work in boycotting apartheid sport, as
well as campaigning to stop arms sales. It also played an important
role in internationalising economic and financial sanctions,
credited by some as the final nail in apartheid's coffin and was
able to make an important and distinctive contribution to the
transition to democracy. At the same time, critical debates within
the Commonwealth about racial and political equality transformed
the association from a docile, post-imperial organisation, led by
the UK and in its own interests, to a modern, multi-racial
'North-South' forum for reconciling global difference and
overcoming the legacies of colonialism. This comprehensive and
authoritative account of the Commonwealth's engagement with
apartheid South Africa is intended for all those who study and
research the modern Commonwealth, its structure and influence, and
for those with a general interest in contemporary post-war history.
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