Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Terminology and orthography
- Introduction
- 1 The settlement of the country
- 2 Colonial conquest
- 3 Unification
- 4 Consolidation
- 5 Apartheid
- 6 The costs of apartheid
- 7 ‘Let freedom reign’: the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980–1994
- 8 Epilogue: the acid rain of freedom
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index
7 - ‘Let freedom reign’: the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980–1994
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Terminology and orthography
- Introduction
- 1 The settlement of the country
- 2 Colonial conquest
- 3 Unification
- 4 Consolidation
- 5 Apartheid
- 6 The costs of apartheid
- 7 ‘Let freedom reign’: the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980–1994
- 8 Epilogue: the acid rain of freedom
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index
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- A Concise History of South Africa , pp. 174 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008