The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
This book chronicles the extraordinary events in South Africas recent history, from the 76 Soweto riots, the euphoria of Nelson Mandelas release, to the 1994 elections and the final shattering of the reviled apartheid system
Since June 1964, Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned in South Africa. His speeches and writings have been banned, his words and voice cut off from his people. A whole generation has been born and grown up while he has been in jail, yet, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, "there is no black child in whose face, at the mention of his name, there is not instant recognition." For Nelson Mandela is a l…