The Commonwealth, South Africa and Apartheid av Stuart (Institute of Commonwealth Studies UK) Mole

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<P>This book explores the role of the modern Commonwealth in the international campaign against <EM>apartheid</EM> in South Africa. Spanning the period of South Africa¿s <EM>apartheid</EM> state, from its foundation in 1948 until its ending in April 1994, the author demonstrates that, after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre and South Africa¿s subsequent exclusion from the Commonwealth, the organisation was able to become both "pathfinder and interlocutor" on the road to South Africa¿s freedom. As well as South Africa¿s ejection from the Commonwealth, <EM>apartheid¿s</EM> increasing isolation was sustained by the Commonwealth¿s pioneering work in boycotting <EM>apartheid </EM>sport, as well as campaigning to stop arms sales. It also played an important role in internationalising economic and financial sanctions, credited by some as the final nail in <EM>apartheid¿s</EM> coffin, and was able to make an important and distinctive contribution to the transition to democracy. At the same time, c