Bell, Terry (with Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza)

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 police, the secret services and the civil service - remain in place. And there are thousands of compromised individuals, many in prominent positions, whose still secret betrayals and abuses leave them open to blackmail and manipulation. UNFINISHED BUSINESS pulls back the curtain on the ‘political miracle' of the new South Africa to reveal some of the hidden history of its apartheid past: how the Afrikaner Broederbond (the secret society to which every president, prime minister, senior military and police officer belonged) operated; the murderous activities of the South African security forces in Transkei; the story of Dumisa Ntsebeza, anti-apartheid activist, torture victim, political prisoner, teacher and human rights lawyer, who was cynically implicated in a massacre in an attempt to derail the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; the citation of former president F.W. de Klerk as a defendant in a civil action for murder at exactly the moment he was travelling to Oslo to collect a Nobel peace prize. inventory #34171 ISBN: 1859845452.