{"product_id":"9780798305457","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW White Gold and Thirsty Communities : The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project by John Aerni-Flessner","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 27\/02\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a tale both of international diplomacy and of the ways that high politics and the antiapartheid struggle played out-and continue to play out-in the daily lives of the people of Lesotho and South Africa.?The LHWP is the result of a 1986 treaty between the apartheid regime in Pretoria and the military regime in Maseru. John Aerni-Flessner traces the twenty-year negotiations leading up to the signing of the treaty, assesses how the Cold War and anti-apartheid struggles shaped those negotiations, and considers the effect of global geopolitical battles on the entire process. He also shows that, while the LHWP can by one metric be judged a success-today the project delivers hundreds of millions of cubic meters of \"white gold\" per year from Lesotho to Gauteng-it is also a failure in that many communities in both countries still lack access to water. These communities are emblematic of the continuing divide between haves and have-nots that existed during the apartheid era and that persist today. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368194126197,"sku":"9780798305457","price":38.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780798305457.jpg?v=1763548840","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780798305457","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}