This fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa integrates histories of resistance with the analysis of power - asking not only why apartheid was defeated, but how it came to survive for so long.

• Preface


• 1: The Apartheid Election, 1948


• 2: The Consolidation of Apartheid


• 3: Sharpeville and its Aftermath


• 4: Apartheid Regnant


• 5: The Opposition Destroyed


• 6: Cracks within the System


• 7: The Limits and Dangers of Reform


• 8: A Balancing of Forces


• 9: Conclusion

Saul Dubow previously taught at the University of Sussex. Born and brought up in Cape Town, he has degrees from the universities of Cape Town and Oxford. He has published widely on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all its aspects: political, ideological, and intellectual. He has special interests in the history of race, ethnicity, and national identity, as well as imperialism, colonial science, and global circuits of knowledge. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies.