From the Book - Third edition.
Part One. Setting the scene 1. Introduction Historiography 2. Historical background The peoples of South Africa The creation of South Africa: the South African war and its aftermath Union and segregation The African response The rise of Afrikanerdom
3. The basis of apartheid
The implementation of apartheid
Early apartheid legislation
The "grand apartheid" solution
4. Growing contradictions
The failure of grand apartheid
Essential workers: the failure of labour control
Bantu education and Black consciousness
The apartheid police state
From failure to reform?: the 1983 Constitution
5. The collapse of apartheid
6. The legacy of apartheid
1. Manifesto of the ANC Youth League, 1944
2. Verwoerd explains apartheid, 1950
3. Mandela speaks on the need to challenge apartheid, 1953
4. Mrs. Dumani describes how segregationist and apartheid laws destroyed her family, 1957
5. The Freedom Charter, 1955
6. Frances Baard describes how women organised to protest
8. Robert Sobukwe, "my idea of Africa in 1973", 1959
9. Stephen Biko explains "Black consciousness", 1971
9. Dan Montsisi testifies as to the origins of the Soweto uprising, 1976
10. Dan Montsisi is tortured by the police, 1977
11. An ordinary policeman explains his involvement in the killing of Stephen Biko, 1977
12. Declaration of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983
13. Margaret Friedman speaks about the assassination of her partner, Dr. David Webster, and her search for his killers, 1989
14. F.W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the ANC and the freeing of Mandela, 1990
15. Eugene de Kock talks about killing people, 1990
16. Nelson Mandela cautions that the struggle for freedom remains to be won, 1990
17. Mandela speaks of freedom attained, at his inauguration as president of South Africa, 1994.
