The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

by David Welsh

On his way into Parliament on February 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: "South Africa will never be the same again after this." Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority circled the wagons and fought to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930561
• ISBN13: 9780813930565
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"