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From Protest to Challenge, Volume 6
A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1990, Challenge and Victory, 1980–1990
by Gail M. Gerhart and Clive L. Glaser
Published by: Indiana University Press
816 Pages, 23 b&w illus., 6 maps
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From Protest to Challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict, protest, and political mobilization by South Africa's black majority. Volume 6 takes up the story in 1980 and examines the crucial decade that preceded the collapse of the apartheid system. As with earlier volumes in the series, it combines narrative with a wealth of primary source materials that record the words of the men and women who shaped South Africa's complex history.
Preface
Part 1. Challenge and Victory, 1980–1990
1. Reform and Repression in the Era of P. W. Botha
2. Internal Opposition: The Battle Joined
4. Exile and Underground Politics, 1980–1988
5. Breaking the Deadlock, 1988–1990
Epilogue
Part 2. Documents
Index
Gail M. Gerhart is Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is author of Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology and author (with Thomas G. Karis) of volumes 3–5 of From Protest to Challenge.
Clive L. Glaser teaches in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is author of Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935–1976 and editor of the journal African Studies.
"This sixth and last volume in this series covers the most significant decade of South Africa's complex and difficult transition from apartheid to Nelson Mandela's emergence as the country's first African president. The first section analyzes five major patterns of political behavior that culminated in a peaceful negotiated settlement between the long-term dominant minority white community and the African liberation movement. The essays are informative and capture the essence of the era. The second section consists of 182 documents that provide background evidence relevant to the political behavior examined in the initial five analyses. The five major political analyses offer an analytical account of the P. W. Botha era, the evolution of internal opposition in emerging African associations as they reacted to white domination, the political struggles and emergence of African resistance, the emergence and effectiveness of exile groups such as the African National Congress, and the reactions of white and African leaders that ultimately resulted in an essentially peaceful resolution of the racial conflict that marked the country's evolution to a multiracial democracy. A brief epilogue updates events leading to Mandela's election in 1994. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. — Choice"
~M. E. Doro, emerita, Connecticut College
"From Protest to Challenge . . . gets us out of the false dichotomy of heroes/villains and forces us to confront South Africa's history in its complex specificity. Given the contested present, it would be a shame were this its last volume."
~African Studies Quarterly
"[This] book brings to a fitting close a scholarly project that spanned over four decades. Its rigorous commentary and careful selection of documents will continue to be useful sources for generations of historians and researchers to come."
~African Historical Review
"Everyone who works in South African studies, in particular historians and scholars in politics, await with some eagerness the publication of new parts of the Protest to Challenge project initiated by Thomas G. Karis and Gwendolen M. Carter over 50 years ago. Continued by Karis together with Gail Gerhart, after Carter's death it has come to be regarded as an artisan would treat his/her tools of the trade. . . The volume under review, produced by Gerhart with Glaser, maintains the exacting standards of previous ones . . . .65.1 2013"
~South African Historical Journal
"This sixth and last volume in this series covers the most significant decade of South Africa's complex and difficult transition from apartheid to Nelson Mandela's emergence as the country's first African president. . . . The essays are informative and capture the essence of the era. . . . Recommended."
~Choice
"On balance, Gail Gerhart and Clive Glaser have provided a most welcome addition to the literature on modern South African political history. Even in a crowded market, this is an obligatory purchase for anybody seriously interested in the subject. Vol. 43, No. 3, 2010"
~International Journal of African Historical Studies
"[This] is a valuable source for those interested in South Africa and how Africans helped important changes to occur. 2011"
~American Reference Books Annual
"Challenge and Victory [From Protest to Challenge, vol. 6] is a timely book offering a distinctive mix of insightful analysis and supporting primary documents, ensuring that it is a crucial read for anyone interested in the intriguing events of apartheid's demise."
~Political Studies Review
"The overthrow of apartheid in South Africa permits an interpretive change in the thrust of African resistance politics by the editors and authors of this invaluable documentary history."
~Foreign Affairs
"An enduring resource for historians of South Africa, scholars interested in revolutionary thought and practice, and students concerned with the interplay between violent and nonviolent strategies for social change."
~Africa Today
"An invaluable and matchless source of evidence for scholars analyzing South Africa's sociopolitical history."
~Choice
"An invaluable reference work, hard to equal."
~African Studies Review
"A book that helps us forge a common national story."
~Sunday Independent (Johannesburg)
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