Table of Contents

PART 1 Historical Forces

1.Union and Segregation

PART 2 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

2. Apartheid and the State

3. Apartheid and the Struggle

4. The End of Apartheid

PART 3 The Nation In Transition

5. 1994 The New South Africa

6. A Time of Change

7. Coming to Terms with the Past: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

PART 4 The Question of Progress

8. The 1999 Elections

9. From Mandela to Mbeki

10. The President Mbeki Years

PART 5 Contemporary South Africa

11. Politics and Society

Appendices

References

Index

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Politics: South Africa provides an acute appraisal of the critical moments in the history of South Africa, and examines the political environment in the years following the shift to democracy.

About the Author

Dr Heather Deegan is a Reader in Comparative Politics at Middlesex University, London. She was a Fellow of the Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria and was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand. She is the author of six books including the recently published Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security (2009).