The Road to Democracy in South Africa – Abridged Version Volume 5

Volume 5 of the Road to Democracy in South Africa Abridged Edition series tells the history of the supportive role provided by countries on the African continent for the liberation struggle. These countries include Ghana, Algeria and Tanzania. This volume, African solidarity, like the academic volumes that cover the South Africa’s struggle for freedom in the period 1960–1994, is based closely on the corresponding academic version of SADET’s Road to Democracy series, which has achieved wide acclaim.

Unlike the bulky academic versions of SADET’s Road to Democracy, the Abridged Edition series is much shorter; it is quicker and easier to read. The footnotes, the lengthy quotations, and overwhelmingly intricate detail have been removed. What remains is the stark truth; an outline of how, in a myriad of ways, African states helped the South African struggle for freedom.

The names of authors of the Road to Democracy in South Africa Abridged Edition series have been removed from each chapter but theirs is the credit for researching and creating them. SADET acknowledges the sterling work by all these international scholars.

This Abridged Editions series should be read by every South African. The hope is that others on the African continent and elsewhere in the world will find much of interest in its pages. After all, the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa is one of Africa’s greatest success stories.