The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa : : I Look Back 30 Years / / Sylvia Neame.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Neame, Sylvia ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2021]; Best Red, and imprint of HSRC Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; About the author --; Abbreviations --; PROLOGUE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS --; PART I: RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Nelson Mandela takes the initiative --; 3 Was Mandela selling the ANC down the river? --; 4 The parallel strategy of Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki --; 5 Communists take an ultra-radical stand --; 6 A qualitative shift in national and international conditions --; 7 An alliance between the ANC and imperialist capital? --; 8 Timing of the start of negotiations --; 9 The structure of the national democratic revolution in South Africa --; 10 Transitional mechanisms in the framework of the negotiation process --; 11 Resistance to neocolonialism, the key content of South African liberation --; 12 The Kabwe conference, June 1985 --; 13 ‘ANC Statement on Negotiations: October 9th, 1987’ --; 14 Conclusions concerning the Mandela talks --; 15 Conclusions regarding the secret Afrikaner nationalist–exile ANC dialogue group --; 16 The Constitutional Committee --; 17 The ANC’s anniversary (January 8th) statements, 1987–1990: A shift towards a political solution --; 18 The in-house seminar on ‘Constitutional Guidelines’ --; 19 The ANC’s fragmented organisation on the negotiation (constitutional) front --; 20 ‘Constitutional Guidelines’, including my response --; 21 The SACP conference document ‘The Path to Power’, April 1989 --; 22 Drafting the Harare Declaration --; 23 Confusion reigns in the last months of 1989 and early 1990 --; 24 FW de Klerk’s speech on 2 February 1990 --; 25 Uncertainty continues as the exiles return in 1990 --; 26 Epilogue --; Notes --; PART II: EXTRACTS FROM MY DIARY, 1985–1989 --; October 1985 – New Year’s Eve 1989 --; Postscript --; PART III: INTERNAL PAPERS ADDRESSED TO THE SACP AND THE ANC --; 1 We need to prepare ourselves for new possible tasks (August 1985) --; 2 Economic commission (November 1985) --; 3 Response to ‘discussion document’: There is a danger that the party will be isolated (July 1986) --; 4 Some suggestions in connection with the present strategy and tactics of the liberation movement (July 1986) --; 5 Work in the Bantustans (August 1987) --; 6 The death squads – white and black (August 1987) --; 7 ANC platform for negotiations (January 1988) --; 8 A response to ‘Constitutional Guidelines for a Democratic South Africa’ (extract) (November 1988) --; 9 Question of an interim phase (extract) (November 1988) --; 10 Response to the SACP’s new draft programme, ‘The Path to Power’ (March 1989) --; 11 Response to ANC discussion paper on the issue of negotiations (August 1989) --; 12 Response to a party analysis (extract) (March 1990) --; 13 Prospects for a negotiated settlement (third quarter 1990) --; Source material --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781928246510; 9783110783520
• DOI: 10.1515/9781928246510
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sylvia Neame.

Weaves together personal experiences with historical accounts to present rare insight into the struggle to end apartheid.