The ANC get onto its feet in Port Elizabeth -- The party of apartheid comes to power in 1948 -- The defiance campaign -- Mbeki, Mhlaba and Mkwayi together in Port Elizabeth -- Four devastating trails -- The destruction of South end -- 1976 -- The state's murderous response in the Eastern Cape -- PEBCO: its founding and first three months -- Social and economic conditions in South Africa 1980 -- The government strategies: repression and reform -- UDF is born -- The storm gather strength -- The UDF insurrection begins -- The story begins in Cradock in 1984 -- The Langa massacre -- The AZAPO-UDF clashes -- Trojan horses and assassinations -- More AZAPO-UDF violence -- The Port Elizabeth consumer boycott -- The murders of the Cradock four and the first state of emergency -- South Africa regional destabilisation -- The rubicon speech -- A massive conflagration on Park drive -- The attack of builder's market -- 1985 moves to an end -- PW Botha opens parliament -- The beginning of negotiations -- Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1986 -- The end of April 1986: an assessment -- The destruction of Crossroads and Langa -- The second state of emergency -- Whites against apartheid -- Sanctions and disinvestment -- The last kick of apartheid's dying donkey -- Denouement --Two years of despair -- 1987: the year of many strikes -- Stealthy negotiations with Mandela -- Johannesburg to Lusaka -- The white community trundles out to vote -- At last, Govan Mbeki is released -- Apartheid loses its second war -- Informal negotiations continue -- Apartheid's third and last strategy -- 2 February 1990 -- Release and welcome -- An Eastern Cape welcome.
Summary:
"Riordan takes the reader on a long-anticipated and profound journey through the Eastern Cape during the horror of high apartheid in the 1980s. It was there that apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people's resistance, through the church, through civic structures and in the underground, won the war." --Cover.
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