Introduction: a tragic dilemma
An extraordinary country
An extraordinary professor and the 'Cape Nats'
"The most terrific clash of interests imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's response
Denying Black South Africans citizenship: John Vorster's empire
Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's foreign schemes
PW Botha and 'power sharing without losing control'
A crossing suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon
Van Zyl Slabbert: the golden boy and the black prince
'The risk of not taking risks': ending empire
Time for a 'quantum leap': FW de Klerk's venture
'Paddling into dangerous rapids': drafting a new constitution
A record of understanding
A wary military
Negotiating the NP out of power.