Black and Gold (book)

Black and Gold
AuthorAnthony Sampson
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitics
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPantheon
Publication date
1987
Publication placeUnited Kingdom

Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries, and Apartheid is a 1987 book by English journalist Anthony Sampson which deals with the relationship between international big business and Black political movements in South Africa, weaving together the themes of apartheid and gold mining.[1][2][3] Black and Gold includes an account of foreign finance behind the "Apartheid Boom."[4]

  1. ^ Encounter - Volume 71 - Page 44 1988 "The style undermines the authenticity of a correspondent who, after all, did take the trouble to meet and study a broad cross-section of South Africans. As to be expected, Anthony Sampson's Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries and ..."
  2. ^ Sebastian Mallaby After apartheid: the future of South Africa 1993 0812922042 "Anthony Sampson's Black and Gold and Joseph Lelyveld's Move Your Shadow have provided me with models of good writing to aspire to."
  3. ^ The Listener - Volume 117 - Page 28 1987 "In next week's 'Listener Review of Books' Arthur HOPCRAFT on Hemingway's Garden of Eden, J.E. SPENCE on Anthony Sampson's Black and Gold. "
  4. ^ Anne FuchsPlaying the Market: The Market Theatre, Johannesburg - Page 20 9042013184 - 2002 -"as Anthony Sampson tells us in Black and Gold by obtaining loans underwritten by Barclays in London and by Rockefeller and the Chase Bank m the USA. This was the beginning of the "Apartheid Boom." with foreign investment doubling ..."