Waiting - The Whites of South Africa

In this book, those who directly benefit from Apartheid speak for themselves. Unted only by their fear of the Black, Coloured and Asia majority, the Afrikaners, English and Jews of South Africa view one another with mutual contempt amd hostility, t hrough stereotypes similar to those with which they characterize the majority population. Living in a comfortable backwater North of Cape Town, they are all waiting for something to happen. But whereas Black South Africans, however great their oppression, have a sense that time is on their side, the Whites can only view the future they have created by their complacent bad faith with bewilderment and mounting anxiety. Some believe Apartheid to be unjust, others uphold it vociferously, but all are under the sway of the racist traditions that permeate South African South African society. For Apartheid is more than a system of oppressive laws - it is a state of being that radicallu denies the humanity of the other, ensnaring the subjects of this major study in a series of intractable contradictions from which there is no apparent escape...

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