Publisher's Synopsis
This work chronicles the successive failures of the white political system to reach an accommodation with South Africa's non-white majority prior to the release of Nelson Mandela and the legalization of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations.;In particular, the book analyzes the era dominated by the erratic, finger-wagging state president, P.W. Botha, an autocrat who failed in his attempts to introduce limited reforms while maintaining legal apartheid and an essentially racist political culture.
