- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press Ed edition (11 July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226768554
- ISBN-13: 978-0226768557
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,448,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning "The Mind of South Africa", this book is an account of the negotiating process that led to majority rule. It retells the story of the behind-the-scenes collaborations that started with a meeting between Kobie Coetsee, then Minister of Justice, and Nelson Mandela in 1985. By 1986, negotiations involved senior government officials, intelligence agents and the African National Congress. For the next four years, they assembled in places such as a gamepark lodge, the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a fishing hideaway and even in a hospital room. All the while, De Klerk's campaign assured white constituents nothing would change. Sparks shows how the key players, who began with little reason to trust one another, developed friendships which would later play a crucial role in South Africa's struggle to end apartheid. Allister Sparks's "The Mind of South Africa" won South Africa's 1990 Sanlam Literary Award. Former correspondent for "The Washington Post", "The Observer" and Holland's leading newspaper, "NRC Handelsblad", Sparks was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
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WHEN FREDERIK WILLEM DE KLERK strode to the podium in South Africa's wood-panelled Chamber of Parliament at 11.15 on the morning of February 2, 1990, to open his first parliamentary session as president, everyone expected him to make a reformist statement of some kind. Read the first page
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WHEN FREDERIK WILLEM DE KLERK strode to the podium in South Africa's wood-panelled Chamber of Parliament at 11.15 on the morning of February 2, 1990, to open his first parliamentary session as president, everyone expected him to make a reformist statement of some kind. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Allister Sparks tells a story in a brief, a reporter kind of a way, where he leaves out the details and gives you the key facts plus an explanation of them. By the time you finish the book you'll get a picture of the past and present of South Africa. You'll probably be clued in as much as people who leave there.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Why did the apartheid regime keep Mandela alive?
28 Mar 1999
Format:Hardcover
An excellent read if you know at least a little about South African History. It's a "who's who" of the inside story of Africa's "Negotiated Revolution" and could count as a "cliff hanger" if we all didn't already know the outcome of the story. But for anyone who would like to know how the worlds most remarkable political transition was pulled off without a bloody coup, who all of the players were, and why one the worlds most brutal and racist governments kept the world's most enigmatic man alive; then this is the read for you.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
all sides
10 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
Tomorrow is Another Country is the sequel to the Mind of South Africa. It described the transition from apartheid state to the Rainbow Nation. Allister Sparks is a South African journalist (and is currently teaching at Duke University) who sought to get "the real story" before the actors started to forget. He found collaboration from all sides so everyone would know the sacrifices made by both sides to form the new South Africa.
An excellent balance between being comprehensive and being readable, Tomorrow is Another Country is not a difficult read but not nearly as inspiring as Nelson Mandela's book, Long Walk to Freedom. It does however capture more of the Afrikaaner experience, something Long Walk to Freedom often fails on doing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The story of South Africa's transition.
17 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
This is an outstanding book with many original and personal accounts of what brought South Africa to a negotiated abandonment of minority rule. Objective and beautifully written.
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