Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
How Long Can They Last?
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Why South Africa Will Survive: A Historical Analysis
by L.H. Gann, by Peter Duignan
St. Martin's Press, 312 pp., $27.50
South Africa: Time Running Out Africa.
The Report of the Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern
University of California Press/ Foreign Policy Study Foundation, Inc., 517 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defense, Class Revolution
by John S. Saul, by Stephen Gelb
Monthly Review Press, 128 pp., $5.50 (paper)
The contrast between the arguments of the first two books listed above is less strong than you might think from the titles. The South Africa that will, according to Gann and Duignan's title, survive, will have to be different in very important ways from the South Africa we know today. As for the report of the Study Commission, a more candid title would have to run: 'South Africa: Time Running Out—Well, Maybe not Exactly Running.'
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