Unfinished business : South Africa, apartheid, and truth / Terry Bell with Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Terry, 1942-2026.

Contributor:

Ntsebeza, Dumisa Buhle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

South Africa.

Civil rights--South Africa.

Civil rights.

Political crimes and offenses--Investigation.

Human rights--South Africa.

Human rights.

Political crimes and offenses--Investigation--South Africa.

Political crimes and offenses.

South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2003.

Contents:

File 1 A crime against humanity

1 The paper Auschwitz 9

2 The roots of a crime 19

3 The nerve centre of apartheid 27

4 Genesis of the secret projects 37

5 The Vorster years 55

6 Botha, business and foreign friends 74

7 Operation Daisy 83

8 Special Branch larceny 95

9 Washington, Moscow or Stockholm 104

File 2 End of the apartheid road

1 The model bantustan 129

2 The Cala connection 142

3 The trial of the 'Puflsa Five' 157

4 The killing of Bathandwa Ndondo 168

5 The forgotten people 179

6 Hit squad horrors 192

7 The North Crest massacre 203

File 3 From cul-de-sac to compromise

1 Planning the bloodiest decade 215

2 Foreign influence and hidden repression 222

3 The nature of the beast 228

4 Reform, revolution and repression 238

5 The talking begins 250

6 The Namibian dress rehearsal 262

7 Serious talking begins 272

8 From the Berlin Wall to Codesa 279

9 The genesis of the TRC 285

10 A tale of three survivors 299

11 The poisonous past reaches into the TRC 316

12 Accusations and fightbacks 325

13 Vindication and afterthoughts 338.

Notes:

"First published in South Africa in 2001 by RedWorks for and on behalf of Understanding Our Past"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-364) and index.

ISBN:

1859845452

OCLC:

52145632