Rather than offering comfort or encouragement to a defensive new nation, the book brilliantly explored the unresolved tensions of the post-apartheid order.
However, it is important to remember that the post-apartheid order did not emerge from revolution or military victory — it was a negotiated transition of power.
Pulling our country away from an increasingly calcified apartheid socioeconomic order will itself change the course of history.
(Jews did not speak Yiddish in order to revel in their diversity but because they lived in an apartheid society).
In Oliver Tambo's Dream , Sachswrites about the years he spent working under Tambo's leadership in exile preparing for a post-apartheid constitutional order in South Africa and about the extreme crises that were overcome during the post-1990 constitution-making process to arrive at the document we have today.
The bombing, and even Mrs Rhys's death, played into the hands of the South African authorities, as did Harris's trial and execution; they wanted an anti-apartheid outrage in order to undermine the movement's credibility.
Apartheid-era dogs knew that there was a pecking order in apartheid - the blacker your skin the more you had to be fenced out of society.
R. W. Johnson ("The Crimes of Apartheid, in No Particular Order," Op-Ed, Nov. 3) repeats a common criticism of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: It "appeared to have done something for truth, but very little for reconciliation". Yet there can be no genuine reconciliation without truth.
R. W. Johnson's suggestion ("The Crimes of Apartheid, in No Particular Order," Op-Ed, Nov. 3) that the political-clerical composition of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission encouraged abuser and abused to "stage instant reconciliations" with hugs derogates the human, spiritual and individual dimension of the reconciliation process.
Countries that provide troops for many missions, most of them in the developing world, are also attacking the richer countries for their unwillingness to send their own soldiers to peacekeeping operations, saying that the system suffers from a kind of apartheid, where rich countries order the missions and pay the bills and poor countries send their troops to die.
