Volume 33, Number 16 · October 23, 1986
What Is To Be Done?
By Leonard Thompson
Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
by William Finnegan
Harper and Row, 418 pp., $22.95
South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination
by Heribert Adam, by Kogila Moodley
University of California Press, 315 pp., $18.95
Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa
by Joseph Hanlon
Indiana University Press, 352 pp., $35.00
It is extremely difficult to comprehend the reality of apartheid. Despite the South African government's efforts to shield us from its cruelties, we see evidence of them on television, we hear about them on the radio, we read about them in the daily press. But the realities are so weird, the nuances so complex, that they are utterly remote from American experience, even for those with memories of legally enforced segregation.
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