"At the centre of the analysis is the unmasking of manoeuvres and backroom strategies of manipulation devised by American and British companies with a presence in South Africa, in collaboration with the Mineral Energy Complex (MEC) to circumscribe the ANC's future policies. He recounts some of...

Part I. Western Maritime empires divide the world into a rich Western world and a poor Restern world -- Reasons for the rise of the Western world in the centuries after 1500 -- Power configurations and the periodisation of Western empires (1500-2010) -- Profiling Western marine empires and...