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The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years

Sylvia Neame

		ISBN: 978-1-928246-42-8 $45.00
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	2021/518 pages *Distributed for Best Red, and imprint of HSRC Press*

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Historian Sylvia Neame portrays, from a unique vantage point, the unfolding of the peace process in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a scholar, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and a former prisoner of the apartheid regime, Neame weaves together her personal contributions with historical accounts to offer rare insight into the struggle to end apartheid.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sylvia Neame is author of The Congress Movement and Imprisoned: The Experiences of a Prisoner Under Apartheid.

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

Prologue.
RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE.
Nelson Mandela Takes the Initiative.
Was Mandela Selling the ANC Down the River?
The Parallel Strategy of Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki.
Communists Take an Ultra-Radical Stand.
A Qualitative Shift in National and International Conditions.
An Alliance Between the ANC and Imperialist Capital?
Timing of the Start of Negotiations.
The Structure of the National-Democratic Revolution in South Africa.
Transitional Mechanisms in the Framework of the Negotiation Process.
Resistance to Neocolonialism, the Key Content of South African Liberation.
The Kabwe Conference, June 1985.
"ANC Statement on Negotiations: October 9, 1987."
Conclusions Concerning the Mandela Talks.
Conclusions Regarding the Secret Afrikaner Nationalist–Exile ANC Dialogue Group.
The Constitutional Committee
The ANC's Anniversary (January 8) Statements, 1987–1990: A Shift.
The In-House Seminar on "Constitutional Guidelines."
The ANC's Fragmented Organisation on the Negotiation Front.
"Constitutional Guidelines," Including My Response.
The SACP Conference Document, April 1989.
Drafting the Harare Declaration.
Confusion Reigns.
De Klerk's Speech on 2 February 1990.
Uncertainty Continues as the Exiles Return.
EXTRACTS FROM MY DIARY.
October 1985–New Year's Eve 1989.
INTERNAL PAPERS ADDRESSED TO THE SACP AND THE ANC.
We Need to Prepare Ourselves for New Possible Tasks.
Response to Discussion Document: There Is a Danger That the Party Will Be Isolated.
Some Suggestions in Connection with the Present Strategy and Tactics of the Liberation Movement.
Work in the Bantustans.
The Death Squads: White and Black.
ANC Platform for Negotiations.
A Response to "Constitutional Guidelines for a Democratic South Africa" (Extract).
Question of an Interim Phase (Extract).
Response to the SACP's New Draft Programme, "The Path to Power."
Response to ANC Discussion Paper on the Issue of Negotiations.
Response to a Party Analysis (Extract).
Prospects for a Negotiated Settlement.