Table of Contents ALSO BY MARTIN MEREDITH: Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 - THE MISSION SCHOOL LADDER CHAPTER 2 - JOHANNESBURG CHAPTER 3 - FRIENDS AND COMRADES CHAPTER 4 - THE APARTHEID MACHINE CHAPTER 5 - THE ‘M’ PLAN CHAPTER 6 - THE FREEDOM CHARTER CHAPTER 7 - ‘THE FABULOUS DECADE’ CHAPTER 8 - A TRIAL OF ENDURANCE CHAPTER 9 - SPEAR OF THE NATION CHAPTER 10 - CAPTURE CHAPTER 11 - OPERATION MAYIBUYE CHAPTER 12 - THE RIVONIA TRIAL CHAPTER 13 - PRISONER 466/64 CHAPTER 14 - A DOUBLE ORDEAL CHAPTER 15 - SOWETO CHAPTER 16 - FREE MANDELA! CHAPTER 17 - TALKING WITH THE ENEMY CHAPTER 18 - THE FOOTBALL CLUB CHAPTER 19 - BOTHA’S TEA PARTY CHAPTER 20 - A STEP TO FREEDOM CHAPTER 21 - THE THIRD MAN CHAPTER 22 - WINNIE’S TRIAL CHAPTER 23 - CODESA CHAPTER 24 - WINNIE’S DOWNFALL CHAPTER 25 - THE SUNSET CLAUSE CHAPTER 26 - THE LONELIEST MAN CHAPTER 27 - THE ELECTION ROLLER-COASTER CHAPTER 28 - REINVENTING SOUTH AFRICA CHAPTER 29 - THE BITTER END CHAPTER 30 - THE GRAVY TRAIN CHAPTER 31 - DEALING WITH THE PAST CHAPTER 32 - PASSING THE BATON CHAPTER 33 - L’ENVOI NOTES ON SOURCES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Copyright Page ALSO BY MARTIN MEREDITH: The Past Is Another Country: Rhodesia—UDI to Zimbabwe The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Era Coming to Terms: South Africa’s Search for Truth Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa For T ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THE YEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA, AS a journalist and as an author, I have encountered much generosity and goodwill. Many people on many occasions have given me valued help and assistance and shown great hospitality. For all the acts of kindness I have received, I am profoundly grateful. I would like here to record my thanks in particular to Nelson Mandela and to his friends and colleagues who were so forthcoming about him. I am especially grateful to Walter Sisulu, and to Beryl Baker, Fikile Bam, Mary Benson, Hilda Bernstein, Rusty Bernstein, George Bizos, Nat Bregman, Amina Cachalia, Yusuf Cachalia, Ilse Fischer, Ruth Fischer, Bob Hepple, Rica Hodgson, Joel Joffe, Adelaide Joseph, Paul Joseph, Kathy Kathrada, Wolfie Kodesh, Mac Maharaj, Govan Mbeki, Godfrey Pitje, Lazar Sidelsky, Joe Slovo, Ben Turok and Harold Wolpe. My thanks are also due to librarians at the William Cullen Library and Jan Smuts House Library, University of the Witwatersrand, at The Star, Johannesburg, and at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. I am also grateful to Penny Hoare, for her early encouragement of the work; to Christina Hardyment, Heidi Holland, Felicity Bryan, Kate Jones, and Antonia Till; and to Rachel Whitehead, for providing the rural retreat where this book was written.