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The last Afrikaner leaders : a supreme test of power /

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Main Author: Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Edition:First University of Virginia Press edition.
Series:Reconsiderations in southern African history
Subjects:
National Party (South Africa) > History > 20th century.
Politicians > South Africa > 20th century.
Apartheid > South Africa > 20th century.
Power (Social sciences) > South Africa.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1948-1994.
South Africa > Race relations > 20th century > Political aspects > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a tragic dilemma
  • An extraordinary country
  • An extraordinary professor and the 'Cape Nats'
  • "The most terrific clash of interests imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's response
  • Denying Blacks South Africans citizenship: John Vorster's empire
  • Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's foreign schemes
  • PW Botha and 'power sharing without losing control'
  • A crossing suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon
  • Van Zyl Slabbert: the golden boy and the black prince
  • 'The risk of not taking risks': ending empire
  • Time for a 'quantum leap': FW de Klerk's venture
  • 'Paddling into dangerous rapids': drafting a new constitution
  • A record of understanding
  • A wary military
  • Negotiating the NP out of power.

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