Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

by Allister Haddon Sparks

The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning "The Mind of South Africa," this book is an extraordinary account from South Africa's premier journalist of the negotiating process that led to majority rule. "Tomorrow is Another Country" retells the story of the behind-the-scenes collaborations that started with a meeting between Kobie Coetsee, then minister of justice, and Nelson Mandela in 1985. By 1986, negotiations involved senior government officials, intelligence agents, and the African National Congress. For the next four years, they assembled in places such as a gamepark lodge, the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a fishing hideaway, and even in a hospital room. All the while, De Klerk's campaign assured white constituents nothing would change. Sparks shows how the key players, who began with little reason to trust one another, developed friendships which would later play a crucial role in South Africa's struggle to end apartheid.

Genres: History

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Vicky Ireland · Rating 4 out of 5]

As usual Alistair Sparks writes about happenings in South Africa in clear terms. This book tells of how the whole negotiating process began long before the late 1980s. Members of the Nationalist government and others were in regular contact with Nelson Mandela, ANC members in exile and activists in South Africa. I found it quite an awakening to learn what had been taking place for so long.

[Timothy Kieswetter · Rating 5 out of 5]

really loved this book. love my country and its people. Proudly South African