South Africa

T.R.H. DAVENPORT was Reader, Professor and then Head of Department of History at Rhodes University in Grahamstown until his retirement in 1990. He was previously Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Afrikaner Bond: the History of a South African Political Party, and contributor to the Oxford History of South Africa and to a variety of professional journals.CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of numerous books and articles on aspects of South African history, including The Making of South Africa (1988), A Historical Dictionary of South Africa (1983 , new ed. 1999) and many articles in the South African History Journal.

'This work is a remarkable tour de force; to have managed to deal so brilliantly within the compass of a few hundred pages with the fascinating history of South Africa from prehistoric times right up to the second democratic elections of that beloved country'. - the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town 'Probably the best one-volume work on the subject yet published.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times Educational Supplement

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Foreword by Reverend Desmond Tutu Preface List of Acronyms PART ONE: THE PRELUDE TO WHITE DOMINATION Section I: THE SETTING OF THE HUMAN PEOPLE From the Dawn of History to the Time of Troubles The Birth of a Plural Society The Enlightenment and the Great Trek Section II: CHIEFDOMS, REPUBLICS AND COLONIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY African Chiefdoms Boer Republics British Colonies Section III: THE STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION White and Black: The Struggle for Land Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902 The Shaping of a White Dominion PART TWO: THE CONSOLIDATION OF A WHITE STATE Section I: THE ROAD TO AFRIKANER DOMINANCE Union under Stress: Botha and Smuts, 1910-24 The Afrikaner's Road to Parity: Hertzog, 1924-33 White Unity, Black Division, 1933-9 Smuts and the Liberal-Nationalist Confrontation, 1939-48 Section II: The Age of the Social Engineers The Trek Into the Wilderness, 1948-60 Internal Combustion, 1956-64 Modification and Backfire, 1964-78 At the Crossroads, 1978-90 Salesmanship: Ethnasia contra mundum, 1945-90 Section III: A Search for a Promised Land Towards the Sharing of Power Towards the Sharing of South Africa Body, Mind and Spirit: a Quest for Humane Values Appendix Tables: Heads of State, 1652-1998 Party Representation in the Assembly, 1910-98 Bibliographical Notes Index