Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.