Facing the Challenge of ‘Young Africa’: Apartheid, South Africa and British Decolonisation

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Extracted from text ... A version of this paper was presented at 'Southern Africa and the World: The Local, the Regional and the Global in Historical Perspective' Biennial Conference of the South African Historical Society, University of Cape Town, 26-29 June 2005. I would like to thank the Research Fund of the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex for its support. 54 South African Historical Journal, 54 (2005), 54-71 Facing the Challenge of 'Young Africa': Apartheid, South Africa and British Decolonisation* ROB SKINNER University of Bristol The struggle against apartheid in South Africa will no doubt continue to be recognised as a ..