THE MIND OF SOUTH AFRICA The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid ALLISTER SPARKS HEINEMANN: LONDON 1990 24 x 16 cm. xviii + 424 pp. HB/DJ A critically acclaimed work on the end of apartheid by a respected South African journalist. South Africa is one of the most complex and troubled nations on earth. Its policy of apartheid has crystallised into law the divisions between its races - and has resulted in South Africa being 'apart' itself from the rest of the world. Now South Africa is changing, moving painfully and hesitantly from a decade of crisis into one of transition. As it does so it faces the formidable task of surmounting a conflict that has been three-and-a-half centuries in the making. In this magisterial and gripping work Allister Sparks, a journalist who has been immersed in his country's agonising drama for the past forty years, outlines the seminal historical events that have shaped that conflict. He describes the history of the indigenous black people who had evolved their own social systems long before any white settlers landed; of the Dutch Calvinists who came in the seventeenth century fresh from their holy war of national liberation with Catholic Spain and developed a new vision of a divine mission of national exclusiveness in this land that they had to share with others; of slaves who, paradoxically, were imported into this part of Africa; and of the British who brought with them their Victorian energy, ideals and imperiousness. He shows how these groups clashed and drove each other apart, how each was tempered by experiences of suffering and tragedy that became part of their national myths, and how the discovery of diamonds and gold ignited an industrial revolution that drew them together again into a fervid closeness which laid the basis for the ideology of apartheid. Finally this is the story of the rise and crisis of apartheid and the challenge its decline poses for the future. The Mind of South Africa is a tremendous achievement: a sweeping historical study that probes the hearts and spirits of all the participants in South Africa's tragic drama. It is filled with a vivid sense of 'South Africa's endless agony and enduring hopefulness, the fire that it carries in itself that burns into the soul of everyone who ever goes there'. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHOR'S NOTE PROLOGUE IN THE BEGINNING A FATEFUL WIND THE THIRD MAN GOD'S STEPCHILDREN THE GREAT DISPERSAL THE GREAT TREK INWARD THE RISE OF APARTHEID TRIOMF OF CONTRASTS AND BLINDNESS A SPRAY OF DOOM OF VIOLENCE AND RESTRAINT A THEOLOGICAL CIVIL WAR THE CRISIS OF APARTHEID THE REVOLT OF THE EIGHTIES THE TRANSITION EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

THE MIND OF SOUTH AFRICA
The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid

ALLISTER SPARKS

HEINEMANN: LONDON
1990

A critically acclaimed work on the end of apartheid by a respected South African journalist.
South Africa is one of the most complex and troubled nations on earth. Its policy of apartheid has crystallised into law the divisions between its races - and has resulted in South Africa being 'apart' itself from the rest of the world. Now South Africa is changing, moving painfully and hesitantly from a decade of crisis into one of transition. As it does so it faces the formidable task of surmounting a conflict that has been three-and-a-half centuries in the making. In this magisterial and gripping work Allister Sparks, a journalist who has been immersed in his country's agonising drama for the past forty years, outlines the seminal historical events that have shaped that conflict.

He describes the history of the indigenous black people who had evolved their own social systems long before any white settlers landed; of the Dutch Calvinists who came in the seventeenth century fresh from their holy war of national liberation with Catholic Spain and developed a new vision of a divine mission of national exclusiveness in this land that they had to share with others; of slaves who, paradoxically, were imported into this part of Africa; and of the British who brought with them their Victorian energy, ideals and imperiousness. He shows how these groups clashed and drove each other apart, how each was tempered by experiences of suffering and tragedy that became part of their national myths, and how the discovery of diamonds and gold ignited an industrial revolution that drew them together again into a fervid closeness which laid the basis for the ideology of apartheid. Finally this is the story of the rise and crisis of apartheid and the challenge its decline poses for the future.

The Mind of South Africa is a tremendous achievement: a sweeping historical study that probes the hearts and spirits of all the participants in South Africa's tragic drama. It is filled with a vivid sense of 'South Africa's endless agony and enduring hopefulness, the fire that it carries in itself that burns into the soul of everyone who ever goes there'.

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR'S NOTE PROLOGUE
IN THE BEGINNING
A FATEFUL WIND
THE THIRD MAN
GOD'S STEPCHILDREN
THE GREAT DISPERSAL
THE GREAT TREK INWARD
THE RISE OF APARTHEID
TRIOMF
OF CONTRASTS AND BLINDNESS
A SPRAY OF DOOM
OF VIOLENCE AND RESTRAINT
A THEOLOGICAL CIVIL WAR
THE CRISIS OF APARTHEID
THE REVOLT OF THE EIGHTIES
THE TRANSITION
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

24 x 16 cm. xviii + 424 pp.

Very good condition, pages age tanned towards the edges but otherwise clean and tidy.




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