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"At the centre of the analysis is the unmasking of manoeuvres and backroom strategies of manipulation devised by American and British companies with a presence in South Africa, in collaboration with the Mineral Energy Complex (MEC) to circumscribe the ANC's future policies. He recounts some of his personal experiences and also exposes secret negotiations and deal-making which occurred behind the scenes - issues which ordinary South Africans would otherwise never come to know. Terreblanche also evaluates the performance of the ANC-led government since 1994, focusing on South Africa's affirmative action policies."--Back cover

Part I. Western Maritime empires divide the world into a rich Western world and a poor Restern world -- Reasons for the rise of the Western world in the centuries after 1500 -- Power configurations and the periodisation of Western empires (1500-2010) -- Profiling Western marine empires and understanding their unique characteristics -- Western empires and the dynamics of social and imperial power over the past 500 years -- Western industrialisation and the Great Divergence between the West and the Rest (1820-1950) -- Part II. The first pattern of Western Empires: empires of plunderers, slave traders and settlement colonialists 1530- 1830 -- The first period of deep systemic chaos: the Church in retreat, the yoke of feudalism breaks, two Europes -- The systemic period of the Iberian and the Catholic empires 1530- 1630 -- The systemic period of the Dutch Empire 1648- 1713 -- The systemic period of the first British Empire 1713- 1883

Résumé Cet article propose une analyse de l'évolution de la société sud-africaine depuis l'apartheid. La transition démocratique a conduit à une société divisée en trois classes à peu près égales : une classe moyenne, une classe ouvrière et un sous-prolétariat, dont la situation s'est détériorée depuis 1994. L'accroissement des inégalités durant la dernière décennie plaide pour une révision de la politique économique du gouvernement dans un sens plus social.

In zwei Beiträgen eines Dossiers über Südafrika zehn Jahre nach dem Ende der Apartheid werden der Übergang des Landes von der Rassen- in eine Klassengesellschaft und die damit zusammenhängenden sozialen Probleme wie Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut thematisiert. Anhand von Statistiken wird deutlich, dass soziale Unterschiede noch immer stark mit der Hautfarbe der Menschen korrelieren. Als die große Zukunftsfrage wird das Problem benannt, ausreichend Beschäftigungs- und Einkommensmöglichkeiten für die wachsende Bevölkerung zu schaffen. (DÜI-Kör)

The author of this booklet argues that apartheid could only be abolished successfully if the transition to a new system will take place in a relatively orderly manner and during a period of time in which there will be opportunities to restructure and strengthen the economy. This would be essential if the economy is to create more job opportunities, relieve some of the most serious poverty conditions and strengthen its tax capacity

This paper was delivered at the "Securing the Future" Conference hosted by IDASA in Johannesburg on 11-12 August 1989