Investment in Apartheid. List of companies with investment and interests in South Africa by [SOUTH AFRICA - APARTHEID] - 1974

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London. 2003. Verso. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1859845452. 385 pages. hardcover. Front illustration - Dirk Coetzee, Pretoria, 26th February 1997. Photograph by Jillian Edelstein. Jacket design by Ann Weinstock. keywords: South Africa Apartheid History Politics Racism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The first of a series of class-action legal claims against banks and companies that profited from apartheid was launched to a burst of media frenzy in 2002. Triggered by the publication in South Africa of the first edition of this book, the cases will open up again important questions about what the system of apartheid was about, how and by whom it was run, and to whose benefit- all vital questions concerning the country's unfinished business. Unfinished business abounds in South Africa, largely because its past has still not been properly confronted. Corruption and pockets of poisonous racism remain embedded deep within society. Many of apartheid's most senior agents - within the army, the… Read More

Berkeley. 1986. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520057694. Perspectives on Southern Africa, No. 39. 317 pages. hardcover. Jacket designed by Charles Fuhrman. keywords: South Africa Politics . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this realistic yet optimistic study of the power configurations in South Africa and in the emerging post-apartheid state, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley argue that neither the maintenance of the status quo nor revolutionary transformation is likely. Instead, their study shows how power sharing can work. The authors demystify official reform rhetoric but also analyze the cleavages in opposition politics. The divergent strategies of the African National Congress (ANC), the unions, and Inkatha are dissected, as are the splits in the ruling minority. Despite the political violence and frustration suffered by South African society, the authors conclude that a nonracial democracy has a better chance than many skeptics realize. Adam Moodley… Read More

New York: Alexander Defense Committee, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); stapled wrappers; 43pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, modest toning to rear wrapper, with two small, faint stains to upper front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good or better. Expose of state-sponsored apartheid in South Africa and Rhodesia. With several photographic illustrations (halftones). The author was Executive Secretary of the Alexander Defense Committee, organized in 1965 to advocate on behalf of the "Alexander Eleven," a group of anti-apartheid activists, headed by Neville Alexander, who were imprisoned under South Africa's "Sabotage Act" in 1963.

Washington DC: Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial glossy wrappers; 39pp; illus. Light wear; Near Fine. Articles on the State of Emergency, the Rent Boycott Campaign, Political Trials, etc.

Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 10pp. Mild corner-creasing and evidence of handling, else Fine. One of a series of "Topical Talks" on South African race relations issued by the SAIRR in the 1960s.

London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1970. Second Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; vi,66pp. Some pinpoint wear to extremities and light dust-soil to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. "Apartheid - or the system of "separate development" as the South African authorities prefer to call it - is not self-enforcing. It is maintained by an elaborate system of penal laws backed up by the powerful weaponry of a modern state. This study deals with the special character of law enforcement in a society where race distinction lies at the root of government policy" (from introduction).

London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1971. Third printing. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 13,[1]pp. A Fine copy. Discussion of the South African government's BOSS (Bureau of State Security) laws.

London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 18pp. Some pinpoint wear along spine-fold, else a Fine copy. "This pamphlet does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the sale of arms to South Africa. It answers two popular fallacies: (a) that trade, investment and friendship are persuading the South African government to abandon apartheid; and (b) that economic forces inside South Africa are eroding apartheid and bringing about political changes leading to a democratic and just society" (from introduction).

London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); stapled wrappers; 46,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement," which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid.