''Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries, and Apartheid'' is a 1987 book by English journalist

Anthony Sampson Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was '' Anatomy of Britain'', which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", upd ...

which deals with the relationship between international big business and Black political movements in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

, weaving together the themes of

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

and

gold mining Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface, ...

. Black and Gold includes an account of foreign finance behind the "Apartheid Boom."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 ..."

References

1987 non-fiction books Books about apartheid {{Apartheid-sa-book-stub