Endgame

The full story of behind-the-scenes encounters between ANC leaders and a select few Afrikaners in the turbulent eighties, told for the first time by someone who was there himself: Stellenbosch philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. These highly confidential talks, held behind closed doors in England, were  crucial to the start of negotiations and the transition in South Africa – and they were also the start of an unlikely but lasting friendship between an Afrikaner politician and a fiery young activist and eventual President.