When Smuts Goes: A History of South Africa from 1952-2010 : First Published in 2015 -- Arthur Keppel

Condition : Good, considering age.

Fourth Impression, Shuter & Shooter, Paperback, 1960 - Africana - 270 pp.

Keppel-Jones predicted that the Nationalist's race policies would arouse worldwide ostracism, culminating in economic sanctions and intervention by western powers that were South Africa's former friends. Internally there would be polarisation: Afrikaner nationalists and other white racists would fight to the end to maintain white supremacy, even with economic ruin staring them in the face. The victims of apartheid would have no recourse other than violent revolution to confront this intransigence, he forecast.

Arthur Keppel-Jones lived long enough to see his major prophecy unfulfilled. He was mystified by the Nationalists dismantling apartheid themselves and F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela co-operating to ensure the transition to a new dispensation. A distinguished historian of southern Africa, descended from the 1820 settlers on his mother's side, Arthur Keppel-Jones went to school and completed a BA in Cape Town. He was a Rhodes scholar and taught at the universities of the Witwatersrand and Natal. After emigrating to Canada, he took up an appointment in 1959 as professor of history at Queen's University, where he stayed for the rest of his academic career.

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