People’s War: New Light on the Plot to Take Over South Africa - Anthea Jeffery
People’s War: New Light on the Plot to Take Over South Africa
A Crucial, Investigative Analysis of the ANC's Revolutionary Strategy and Post-Apartheid Transition
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: People’s War: New Light on the Plot to Take Over South Africa
- Author: Anthea Jeffery
- Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg / Cape Town
- Publication Date: 2019 (Updated Edition)
- ISBN-13: 9781868429967
- Edition Details: Revised and Updated Edition, Standard Softcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge gloss illustrated card wrappers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 440 pages. Enhanced with comprehensive archival footnotes, index, and statistical conflict data.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Wraps: The flexible card covers remain flat, bright, and clean. The square spine is unbroken, showing no vertical usage creases. Edges are remarkably crisp with almost undetectable storage friction at the corner tips.
- Interior: Very Good. The internal pages are tight, flat, and free of annotations or highlighting. The outer book block displays slight foxing/spotting, which does not bleed into the page faces.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Dr Anthea Jeffery’s People’s War is a seminal and highly controversial reassessment of South Africa's democratic transition between 1984 and 1994. While mainstream history attributes the horrific political violence of that era to a "third force" backed by the apartheid state, Jeffery uses exhaustive documentation to argue that the African National Congress (ANC) deployed a calculated "people's war" strategy. This method, borrowed from Vietnam, aimed to eliminate black political rivals, render the country ungovernable, and establish a hegemony that set the stage for post-apartheid state capture.
Author Profile: Dr Anthea Jeffery
Dr Anthea Jeffery is the Head of Policy Research at the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), one of the country's oldest and most respected independent think tanks. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of London and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. Renowned for her rigorous, archive-centric investigative writing, her books—including The Natal Story and BEE: Changing the Narrative—provide vital alternative historical frameworks that challenge conventional political narratives.
