Black & gold: tycoons, revolutionaries and apartheid

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Title:	Black & gold: tycoons, revolutionaries and apartheid
Author:	Sampson, Anthony
Year:	1987
Pages:	280
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:	0340395249
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	apartheid national liberation movements foreign enterprises
Abstract:	Study of the erratic relationships between international business leaders and black politicians - the two groups of actors in the South African drama - since they first encountered each other a century ago. The author tries to show how the story developed from both sides, to explore some of the characters and their motivations on the way, and to convey the flavour of each period without hindsight. He does not attempt to analyse with the same closeness the changing attitudes of Afrikaners and their governments, except insofar as they affected the whole climate and legislation of the country. But from 1978, when P.W. Botha became Prime Minister, he looks at the story in more detail, to try to trace the stages towards the current tragic deadlock and to show the viewpoint from America and Europe as well as South Africa.