P. Eric Louw – författare

In this accessible narrative, Louw effectively tells the story of 20th-century South Africa by examining three political periods: British Hegemony (1900-1948), the Afrikaner Nationalist Period (1948-1993), and the post-1994 Black Nationalist Period. He argues that apartheid was premised upon the notion of political partition and not white supremacy. Apartheid was a political strategy, constructed by the ethnic minority in order to prevent them from becoming politically powerless. Unfortunately the partition plan failed, causing an era of pain for South Africa.With apartheid now formally over, Louw presents a comprehensive overview of this important 20th-century phenomenon. Topics covered include: the roots and causes of apartheid; what was apartheid; the struggle against apartheid; why did Afrikaner Nationalists negotiate their own demise in the 1990s; and the impact of apartheid in contemporary South Africa.

This book grapples with the first few years of South Africa’s journey out of apartheid. The book’s focus is on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) because the SABC was the first organisation transformed in post-apartheid South Africa. Because the SABC’s highly visible politico-cultural role, the incoming African National Conference (ANC) government saw the need to revamp this organisation as quickly as possible. Consequently, the SABC played a pioneering role in the post-apartheid transformation process. And given that the SABC was at the cutting edge of the post-apartheid change process, it provides a useful fulcrum for examining the wider issues of South Africa’s social change. As leading ANC spokeswoman Sheila Sisulu said: “We now plan to use the SABC transformation-model for the wide transformation of South Africa.”

This book grapples with the first few years of South Africa’s journey out of apartheid. The book’s focus is on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) because the SABC was the first organisation transformed in post-apartheid South Africa. Because the SABC’s highly visible politico-cultural role, the incoming African National Conference (ANC) government saw the need to revamp this organisation as quickly as possible. Consequently, the SABC played a pioneering role in the post-apartheid transformation process. And given that the SABC was at the cutting edge of the post-apartheid change process, it provides a useful fulcrum for examining the wider issues of South Africa’s social change. As leading ANC spokeswoman Sheila Sisulu said: “We now plan to use the SABC transformation-model for the wide transformation of South Africa.”

Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries – Algeria, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Angola, Mozambique, South West Africa (Namibia), and South Africa – and discusses their varied responses to decolonization, including resistance, acquiescence, negotiations, and migration. It also examines the range of mechanisms used by the global community to compel white Africans into submitting to decolonization through such means as official pressure, diplomatic negotiations, global activism, sanctions, and warfare.Until now, books about African decolonization usually approached the topic either from the perspective of the colonial powers or from an anti-colonial black African perspective. As a result, white African perspectives have been marginalized, downplayed, or presented reductively. Decolonization and White Africans adds white African perspectives to the story, thereby broadening our understanding of the decolonization phenomenon.