Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle"
| dc.contributor.author | Giliomee, Hermann | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-22T10:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-22T10:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
| dc.description.abstract | During the final months of the 1980s one of the last developments that pundits would have predicted for South Africa was that the ruling Afrikaner group would give up power more or less voluntarily, to be replaced by a stable, inclusive democracy. Over the longer run the more common prediction for the country was that of a low-level insurgency ending in a full scale civil war and a racial conflagration. For the short to medium term most serious analysts anticipated power shifting from the existing Afrikaner monopoly to an Afrikaner-led, multiracial oligarchy ruling as coercively as the apartheid regime. In 1988, Ken Owen, a respected Liberal editor, commented on the white-black struggle: "Barring massive external intervention I would put my money on any alliance dominated by Afrikaners. They have the capacity to devastate the region and yet to survive". | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Giliomee, H. (1997). Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle". <i>Daedalus</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25274 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Giliomee, Hermann "Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle"." <i>Daedalus</i> (1997) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25274 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Giliomee, H. (1997). Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle". Daedalus, 126(2): 113-146. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0011-5266 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Giliomee, Hermann AB - During the final months of the 1980s one of the last developments that pundits would have predicted for South Africa was that the ruling Afrikaner group would give up power more or less voluntarily, to be replaced by a stable, inclusive democracy. Over the longer run the more common prediction for the country was that of a low-level insurgency ending in a full scale civil war and a racial conflagration. For the short to medium term most serious analysts anticipated power shifting from the existing Afrikaner monopoly to an Afrikaner-led, multiracial oligarchy ruling as coercively as the apartheid regime. In 1988, Ken Owen, a respected Liberal editor, commented on the white-black struggle: "Barring massive external intervention I would put my money on any alliance dominated by Afrikaners. They have the capacity to devastate the region and yet to survive". DA - 1997 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Daedalus LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1997 SM - 0011-5266 T1 - Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle" TI - Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle" UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25274 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25274 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Giliomee H. Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle". Daedalus. 1997; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25274. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | MIT Press | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Political Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Daedalus | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/daed | |
| dc.title | Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners and the South African "Miracle" | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |