Historian Sylvia Neame portrays, from a unique vantage point, the unfolding of the peace process in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a scholar, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and a former prisoner of the apartheid regime, Neame weaves together her personal contributions with historical accounts to offer rare insight into the struggle to end apartheid PARTIAL CONTENTS: • Prologue. • RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE. • Nelson Mandela Takes the Initiative. • Was Mandela Selling the ANC Down the River? • The Parallel Strategy of Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. • Communists Take an Ultra-Radical Stand. • A Qualitative Shift in National and International Conditions. • An Alliance Between the ANC and Imperialist Capital? • Timing of the Start of Negotiations. • The Structure of the National-Democratic Revolution in South Africa. • Transitional Mechanisms in the Framework of the Negotiation Process. • Resistance to Neocolonialism, the Key Content of South African Liberation. • The Kabwe Conference, June 1985. • "ANC Statement on Negotiations: October 9, 1987." • Conclusions Concerning the Mandela Talks. • Conclusions Regarding the Secret Afrikaner Nationalist-Exile ANC Dialogue Group. • The Constitutional Committee • The ANC's Anniversary (January 8) Statements, 1987-1990: A Shift. • The In-House Seminar on "Constitutional Guidelines." • The ANC's Fragmented Organisation on the Negotiation Front. • "Constitutional Guidelines," Including My Response. • The SACP Conference Document, April 1989. • Drafting the Harare Declaration. • Confusion Reigns. • De Klerk's Speech on 2 February 1990. • Uncertainty Continues as the Exiles Return. • EXTRACTS FROM MY DIARY. • October 1985-New Year's Eve 1989. • INTERNAL PAPERS ADDRESSED TO THE SACP AND THE ANC. • We Need to Prepare Ourselves for New Possible Tasks. • Response to Discussion Document: There Is a Danger That the Party Will Be Isolated. • Some Suggestions in Connection with the Present Strategy and Tactics of the Liberation Movement. • Work in the Bantustans. • The Death Squads: White and Black. • ANC Platform for Negotiations. • A Response to "Constitutional Guidelines for a Democratic South Africa" (Extract). • Question of an Interim Phase (Extract). • Response to the SACP's New Draft Programme, "The Path to Power." • Response to ANC Discussion Paper on the Issue of Negotiations. • Response to a Party Analysis (Extract). • Prospects for a Negotiated Settlement.