PART I: HISTORICAL FORCES
1. Union and Segregation: The Origins of Segregation; Cheap Black Labour and Industrial Development; Racial Supremacy; Politics; Second World War; 1948 General Election.
PART II: THE RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID
2. Apartheid and the State: Forced Segregation; Black Opposition; Sharpeville, State Control and Separate Development; International Reaction; The Homelands; Class and the State.
3. Apartheid and the Struggle: Economic Pressures in the 1970s; Soweto, Education and Youth Action; Attempts to make Apartheid Work; The Tricameral Parliament; The United Democratic Front's Campaign.
4. The End of Apartheid: Total Strategy and the Security Forces; Vigilante Groups and Low Intensity Warfare; The Emergence of F. W. de Klerk; De Klerk's Reforms; International Factors and the Question of Reform; Nelson Mandela and the ANC; The National Peace Accord and the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa); Return to Negotiations.
PART III: THE NATION IN TRANSITION
5. 1994 the New South Africa: The Build-up to the Election; The Interim Constitution; Preparing for the Elections; Learning how to Vote and Party Identification; Security Arrangements; 1994 Election.
6. A Time of Change: Basic Needs; Reconstruction and Development; Economic Challenges and Unemployment; Transformation, Affirmative Action and Gender.
7. Coming to Terms with the Past: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Human Rights Violations Committee; Killings and Torture; Collective Responsibility; Causes and Motives for Violence; The Question of Amnesty; Reaction to the Report; Towards Reconciliation; Poverty Hearings.
PART IV: FORWARD TO THE FUTURE
8. 1999 Elections: Registration - Gender and Age: 1999 Elections; The Campaign; The Verdict: Free and Fair Elections.
9. From Mandela to Mbeki: Goodbye Nelson Mandela; 1994 Government's Performance and Future Challenges: (i) The Economy (ii) Governance and Education (iii) Crime; President Thabo Mbeki.
APPENDICES:
Appendix 1: Harare Declaration, Organisation of African Unity 1989
Appendix 2: President F. W. de Klerk's Address, 2 February 1990
Appendix 3: Nelson Mandela's Speech Following his Release from Prison. Cape Town, 11 February 1990
Appendix 4: Bill of Rights 1996
Appendix 5: Structures of Government 2000
Appendix 6: 1999 Elections: Gender Checklist for Free and Fair Elections
