A Horse Designed by a Committee
The History of the South African Department of Foreign Affairs 1927–1993
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650401 |
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| Authors | David Tothill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 45.1-45.6 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2104/ha080045 |
| OpenAlex | W1967083026 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
South Africa’s Department of External Affairs was set up in 1927 to demonstrate the country’s political independence of the United Kingdom. It operated under various names until the white regime gave way to a democratically-elected government in 1994. Unlike its counterparts in Australia and Canada, which had long included in their structures sections of historians tasked to research those countries’ diplomatic history, the South African department was never historically-aware. It is, therefore, ironic that in 1990, during the death throes of the regime, departmental management itself commissioned a history of the department. This was recently published after several hiccups including a lengthy search for a publisher, and authorisation by the department’s post-1994 management. This paper examines the book
Authorization · Government (linguistics · Independence (probability theory · National archives · Political science · Politics · White (mutation · White paper · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Law · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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