South Africa

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Foreword by Reverend Desmond Tutu Preface List of Acronyms PART ONE: THE PRELUDE TO WHITE DOMINATION Section I: THE SETTING OF THE HUMAN PEOPLE From the Dawn of History to the Time of Troubles The Birth of a Plural Society The Enlightenment and the Great Trek Section II: CHIEFDOMS, REPUBLICS AND COLONIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY African Chiefdoms Boer Republics British Colonies Section III: THE STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION White and Black: The Struggle for Land Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902 The Shaping of a White Dominion PART TWO: THE CONSOLIDATION OF A WHITE STATE Section I: THE ROAD TO AFRIKANER DOMINANCE Union under Stress: Botha and Smuts, 1910-24 The Afrikaner's Road to Parity: Hertzog, 1924-33 White Unity, Black Division, 1933-9 Smuts and the Liberal-Nationalist Confrontation, 1939-48 Section II: The Age of the Social Engineers The Trek Into the Wilderness, 1948-60 Internal Combustion, 1956-64 Modification and Backfire, 1964-78 At the Crossroads, 1978-90 Salesmanship: Ethnasia contra mundum, 1945-90 Section III: A Search for a Promised Land Towards the Sharing of Power Towards the Sharing of South Africa Body, Mind and Spirit: a Quest for Humane Values Appendix Tables: Heads of State, 1652-1998 Party Representation in the Assembly, 1910-98 Bibliographical Notes Index