The Bondage of Fear : A Journey Through the Last White Empire – Fergal Keane

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After nearly 300 years of White hegemony, the subcontinent of Southern Africa is on verge of transformation – the end of the world’s last racial oligarchy. As this process unfolds the fault lines created by centuries of White rule are beginning to shift and in doing so, they have released the pent-up fears of Blacks and Whites. This book examines the climate of fear as thousands die in political violence, and locates the origin of apartheid in fear. It explores how fear threatens to poison the future as it has the past. Chapters include: the Boipatong Massacre; the White middle-class; the last White Parliament; the Afrikaaner bitter-enders; the Black radical left; White working-class life; the Zulus, soldiers, spies and killers; and the ANC. The book concludes with the swearing-in of the new President – Nelson Mandela.
BBC’s Southern Africa Correspondent, witnessed first hand most of the major turning points in South Africa’s 1990s history – the great conflicts between black hopes and white fears, the battle for political supremacy in Natal and the Johannesburg townships, and the new non-racial constitution that followed. Always he listened to “the small, the truest voices”. His portraits of Mandela, De Klerk and Buthelezi have an immediacy based on personal encounters. Current history, writ well.
Hardcover with dust wrapper very good + condition firm binding, clean fresh and crisp pages. No previous owners name inscribed. Dust wrapper very good + FIRST EDITION 1994