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

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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Neame, Sylvia ,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2021]
Best Red, and imprint of HSRC Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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