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Turning point · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994

CODESA — the negotiated revolution

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TURNING POINT · THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA, 1945–1994

1991–93 — At a conference centre outside Johannesburg, apartheid’s rulers and their former prisoners bargain a constitution into being — through walkouts, massacres and the edge of civil war, a settlement holds.

This is one scene of Chapter 11 — The Four Years That Decided It in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.

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