Tomorrow is Another Country: The inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change - Softcover

Sparks, Allister

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226768554 ISBN 13: 9780226768557

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1996

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The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning "The Mind of South Africa", this book is an account of the negotiating process that led to majority rule. It retells the story of the behind-the-scenes collaborations that started with a meeting between Kobie Coetsee, then Minister of Justice, and Nelson Mandela in 1985. By 1986, negotiations involved senior government officials, intelligence agents and the African National Congress. For the next four years, they assembled in places such as a gamepark lodge, the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a fishing hideaway and even in a hospital room. All the while, De Klerk's campaign assured white constituents nothing would change. Sparks shows how the key players, who began with little reason to trust one another, developed friendships which would later play a crucial role in South Africa's struggle to end apartheid. Allister Sparks's "The Mind of South Africa" won South Africa's 1990 Sanlam Literary Award. Former correspondent for "The Washington Post", "The Observer" and Holland's leading newspaper, "NRC Handelsblad", Sparks was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

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This book is an extraordinary account from South Africa's premier journalist of the negotiating process that led to majority rule. Tomorrow Is Another Country tells the story of the behind-the-scenes collaborations that started in 1985 with an astonishing series of secret jailhouse meetings between Kobie Coetsee, then minister of justice, and his prisoner, Nelson Mandela. Within a year clandestine negotiations involved senior government officials, intelligence agents, and representatives of the outlawed African National Congress; they met secretly in a hospital room, the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a fishing hideaway, even a gamepark lodge. All the while, President F. W. de Klerk assured his constituent that white rule would stay. Sparks shows how the key players, who began with little reason to trust one another, developed friendships that later made it possible for them to work together to end apartheid. He concludes with a vivid assessment of the problems facing South Africa in the new era.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226768554
• ISBN 13: 9780226768557
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 261