Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change - Softcover

Sparks, Allister

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226768554 ISBN 13: 9780226768557

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

Tomorrow is Another Country 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 and Nelson Mandela in 1985. Full description

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This book is an extraordinary account from South Africa's premier journalist of the negotiating process that led to majority rule. Tomorrow Is Another Country tells the story of the behind-the-scenes collaborations that started in 1985 with an astonishing series of secret jailhouse meetings between Kobie Coetsee, then minister of justice, and his prisoner, Nelson Mandela. Within a year clandestine negotiations involved senior government officials, intelligence agents, and representatives of the outlawed African National Congress; they met secretly in a hospital room, the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a fishing hideaway, even a gamepark lodge. All the while, President F. W. de Klerk assured his constituent that white rule would stay. Sparks shows how the key players, who began with little reason to trust one another, developed friendships that later made it possible for them to work together to end apartheid. He concludes with a vivid assessment of the problems facing South Africa in the new era.

About the Author

Allister Sparks (1933-2016) was a prominent South African journalist who, over the course of fifty years, challenged the system of apartheid and criticized the South African government. In 1977 he reported that Steve Biko had been beaten to death by the police. He was the editor of the Sunday Express and the Rand Daily Mail, as well as South Africa correspondent for the Washington Post, Observer, Economist, and Holland's NRC Handelsblad. In 1996 the Media Institute of Southern Africa presented Allister Sparks with its Press Freedom Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226768554
• ISBN 13: 9780226768557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264