title: From Protest to Challenge, Volume 6: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 18821990, Challenge and Victory, 19801990
author:  Gail M. Gerhart 
description: This sixth and last volume in this series covers the most significant decade of South Africa's complex and difficult transition from apartheid to Nelson Mandela's emergence as the country's first African president. . . . The essays are informative and capture the essence of the era. . . . Recommended. (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />From Protest to Challenge . . . gets us out of the false dichotomy of heroes/villains and forces us to confront South Africas history in its complex specificity. Given the contested present, it would be a shame were this its last volume. (<i>African Studies Quarterly</i>)<br /><br />Challenge and Victory [From Protest to Challenge, vol. 6] is a timely book offering a distinctive mix of insightful analysis and supporting primary documents, ensuring that it is a crucial read for anyone interested in the intriguing events of apartheid's demise. (<i>Political Studies Review</i>)<br /><br />Everyone who works in South African studies, in particular historians and scholars in politics, await with some eagerness the publication of new parts of the Protest to Challenge project initiated by Thomas G. Karis and Gwendolen M. Carter over 50 years ago. Continued by Karis together with Gail Gerhart, after Carter's death it has come to be regarded as an artisan would treat his/her tools of the trade. . . The volume under review, produced by Gerhart with Glaser, maintains the exacting standards of previous ones . . . .65.1 2013 (<i>South African Historical Journal</i>)<br /><br />[This] book brings to a fitting close a scholarly project that spanned over four decades. Its rigorous commentary and careful selection of documents will continue to be useful sources for generations of historians and researchers to come. (<i>African Historical Review</i>)<br /><br />[From Protest to Challenge] gets us out of the false dichotomy of heroes/villains and forces us to confront South Africa's history in its complex specificity. Given the contested present, it would be a shame were this its last volume. (<i>africasacountry.com</i>)<br /><br />On balance, Gail Gerhart and Clive Glaser have provided a most welcome addition to the literature on modern South African political history. Even in a crowded market, this is an obligatory purchase for anybody seriously interested in the subject. Vol. 43, No. 3, 2010 (<i>International Journal of African Historical Studies</i>)<br /><br />[This] is a valuable source for those interested in South Africa and how Africans helped important changes to occur. 2011 (<i>American Reference Books Annual</i>)
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. CONVENTION OF LONDON, February 27, 1884.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER II. CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN
  
  
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  CHAPTER III. FULL TEXT OF THE FRANCHISE LAW.
  
  
  PUBLISHED JULY 26, 1899. LAW NO. 3.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. ULTIMATUM OF SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC,
  
  
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  CHAPTER V. DUAL ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN
  
  
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  CHAPTER VI. CONSTITUTION OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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