Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: On the trail of profit. The secret state : Securocrats, sanctions and assassinations -- The secret economy -- Oil and other foreign affairs. Banking on apartheid : Bunkers, bankers and gold -- The arms money machine. The Big Five : France -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- The United States of America -- The United Kingdom -- The People's Republic of China (PRC). Proxies, players and pariahs : Proxies and other players -- Pariahs. The long shadow : The long shadow. Acknowledgements -- Endnotes.
Summary:
In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly fifty countries was built. In complete secrecy, allies in corporations, banks, governments and intelligence agencies across the world helped illegally supply guns and move cash in one of history's biggest money laundering schemes. Whistleblowers were assassinated and ordinary people suffered. Weaving together archival material, interviews and newly declassified documents, this book exposes some of the darkest secrets of apartheid's economic crimes, their murderous consequences, and those who profited: heads of state, arms dealers, aristocrats, bankers, spies, journalists and secret lobbyists. These revelations and the difficult questions they pose, will both allow and force the new South Africa to confront its past.
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