Providing a much-needed antidote to recent revisionist attempts to rehabilitate apartheid

This major new text by a leading authority offers a considered and substantive reassessment of the nature, endurance, and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse.

Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author assesses the impact of anti-apartheid protest, of changing attitudes of Western governments to the apartheid regime, and the evolution of South African government policies to the outside world.