Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Map
  7. Author’s Note
  8. Foreword
  9.  
  10. Prologue: Return to Africa
  11.  
  12. PART I Pre-elections: March to August 1993
  13.   1. In at the Deep End
  14.   2. Convalescent in Lebowa
  15.   3. A Time to Mourn
  16.   4. The Platteland Volk
  17.   5. From the Centre to the Sea
  18.   6. A Worried Mother
  19.   7. One Corner of Khayelitsha
  20.   8. Back to Mother
  21.   9. The Klein Karoo
  22. 10. Surplus People
  23.  
  24. PART II Elections: April to May 1994
  25. 11. States of Emergency
  26. 12. The Miracle
  27. 13. What Next?
  28.  
  29. INTERLUDE
  30. Ireland – Mozambique: June to September 1994
  31.  
  32. PART III Post-elections: September 1994 to January 1995
  33. 14. Post-euphoria
  34. 15. The Problem Province
  35. 16. Below the Drakensberg
  36.  
  37. BRIEF INTERLUDE Happenings behind my back
  38.  
  39. 17. To Griqualand East
  40. 18. Where Chaos Rules OK
  41. 19. What’s Wrong with Bloemfontein?
  42. 20. Christmas in Khayelitsha
  43.  
  44. Glossary of Acronyms and South African Words
  45. Select Bibliography
  46. Plates
  47. Copyright