South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and
ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book
explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second
Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony
and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African
people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance,
strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have
shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to
Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the
influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve
Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers
detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt,
the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the
Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi,
Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the
World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's
history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC
rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New
Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of
sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from
the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.
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