Why South Africa Will Survive A Historical Analysis

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication. It argued that the extraordinary social and economic changes that came over South Africa in the 20th Century gave the country great stability. The authors believed that change would come from within the ruling white oligarchy rather than from Liberation Movements and that the greatest solvent of apartheid was to be found in the working of a free market economy. The book provided novel data for sociological, political and strategic reassessment of South Africa. The approach was unusual in that the book represented neither a conventional defence of apartheid nor one of the customary attacks on South Africa.

Part 1: The Peoples of South Africa. Introduction. 1. The Whites 2. The Brown Peoples 3. The Africans. Part 2: South Africa Yesterday and Today 4. The Politics of South Africa 5. The Economic of South Africa 6. South Africa: Strategic and Defence Potential 7. South Africa: A Revolutionary Situation? Part 3: South Africa and the World 8. South Africa and the West 9. The West, the Soviet Union and South Africa 10. Why South Africa Will Survive.

Lewis H. Gann and Peter Duignan were Senior Fellows of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.