The new South Africa at twenty
Critical perspectives
Peter Vale editor Estelle H Prinsloo editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published:30th Jan '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Some of South Africa’s finest academic minds look back at twenty years of democratic rule. How far have we really come? Is race still an entrenched issue in our country? Why does gender discrimination continue? Why are the poor in revolt? Is free expression under threat? What happened to South African Marxism? What drives Julius Malema? How have the unions experienced the post-apartheid years?
These (and many other) questions run through pages that, amongst other things, bring back the voices of both Neville Alexander and Jakes Gerwel. Analytical and accessible, this book continues a long tradition of engaging South Africa’s politics and society in a non-partisan, but critical, fashion. It opens the way for innate explanations and provides insights that lie beyond the workaday accounts on offer by pundits.
Contributors: Raphael de Kadt, Kirk Helliker, John Higgins, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Sandra Klopper, Gerhard Maré, Richard Pithouse, Deborah Posel, Charles Simkins, Peter Vale Salim Vally, Cherryl Walker.
ISBN: 9781869142896
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
258 pages