Seminar Studies / South Africa

List of plates

List of figures

List of tables

Maps

Chronology

Who's who

PART ONE SETTING THE SCENE

1 INTRODUCTION

Historiography

2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The peoples of South Africa

The creation of South Africa: the South African War and its aftermath

Union and segregation

The African response

The rise of Afrikanerdom



PART TWO ANALYSIS

3 THE BASIS OF APARTHEID

Why apartheid?

The implementation of apartheid

Early apartheid legislation

Challenge and repression

The 'grand apartheid' solution

4 GROWING CONTRADICTIONS

The impact of apartheid

The failure of grand apartheid

Essential workers: the failure of labour control

Bantu education and black consciousness

The apartheid police state

The total strategy

From failure to reform?: The 1983 constitution

5 THE COLLAPSE OF APARTHEID

Reform and repression

Insurrection

Negotiation



PART THREE ASSESSMENT

6 THE LEGACY OF APARTHEID

PART FOUR DOCUMENTS

1 Manifesto of the ANC Youth League, 1944

2 Verwoerd explains apartheid, 1950

3 Mandela speaks on the need to challenge apartheid, 1953

4 Mrs. Dumani describes how segregationist and apartheid laws destroyed her family, 1957

5 The Freedom Charter, 1955

6 Frances Baard describes how women organised to protest
the pass laws, 1956

7 Robert Sobukwe, 'My Idea of Africa in 1973', 1959

8 Stephen Biko explains 'black consciousness', 1971

9 Dan Montsisi testifies as to the origins of the Soweto uprising, 1976

10 Dan Montsisi is tortured by the police, 1977

11 An ordinary policeman explains his involvement

Nancy L. Clark is the DeGrummond Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Her publications include Manufacturing Apartheid: State Corporations in South Africa (1994). William H. Worger is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his publications include South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895 (1987). Together they have edited Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Volume 1: From the Slave Trade to Conquest, 1441-1905, (2010) and Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present, (2010).

"South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid provides a detailed, informed, and highly readable introduction to the major themes concerning apartheid South Africa, its development, evolution, and ultimately its collapse. It offers a quick and informative entry point for those new to South African history, covering a broad overview of key political, societal and economic issues. What makes this book particularly useful is the section assessing the diverse historiography, supplemented by a range of key primary documents from across the apartheid era. An analytical and accessible insight into apartheid South Africa."

Matthew Graham, University of Dundee, UK 

"Clark and Worger's South Africa remains one of the most relevant yet accessible texts for students of Apartheid. Including key timelines, source documents and analytical essays this 3rd edition shows the universal demand for this important work which has been updated to incorporate life in post-Apartheid South Africa up to 2015."

Nicholas J. Evans, University of Hull, UK

"The 3rd edition of Clark & Worger's South Africa is a wonderfully concise but extremely thorough account of apartheid, which makes the complexities and contradictions of modern South African history accessible to undergraduate students. The addition of electronic resources, films, and suggestions for further reading in the the 3rd edition not only complement the combination of narrative and primary sources within the text, but also serve as a valuable tool for instructional course design and student research. It is an ideal text for an undergraduate classroom."

Molly McCullers, University of West Georgia, USA