This new history of South Africa provides a significant and unique addition to existing texts by emphasizing the African voice as well as recent developments in the newly democratic South Africa. This text incorporates important new perspectives on South African geography and the spatial dimensions of segregation and apartheid, environmental studies, and the dynamic literature on identities and ethnicity. Drawing upon the most important developments in recent South African historiography, the text highlights how Europeans and Africans shaped the environment, politics, and the economy to develop a complex multi-racial nation. Overall, it provides students with a detailed understanding of all the forces that have shaped South Africa to date, and is more up-to-date than other texts.