Description
No country on earth not even Soviet Russia has in recent years come in for a greater degree of world attention, critical notice, and confused welter prejudice, hostility and enthusiastic approbation, than South Africa. It has been a maker of world news and a topic of endless argument and discussion. Why?
Perhaps the art of the graffiti, the nameless figure of violent personal prejudice who scrawls on walls, in a curious way personifies the extra- vagant contradictions of politics. One man's hero can be hated to dis- traction by the rest of his own family. Truth merges indistinguishably with fantasy in the twilight world of propaganda and self- interest.
This book presents in lucid and objective manner, the whole drama of contemporary South African affairs the assassination of Dr Verwoerd, the life of this remark- able man, his development of the social system of apartheid, life in the apartheid state; Dr Verwoerd's successor, Mr John Vorster, his life and background; and the stresses. strains, changes and prospects of change in South Africa now that a momentous epoch is over and Dr Verwoerd is dead.
