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Title:Between unity and diversity: essays on nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa
Editor:Maharaj, GitanjaliISNI
Year:1999
Pages:366
Language:English
City of publisher:Cape Town
Publisher:Idasa
ISBN:187486490X
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:nation building
economic policy
governance
legislation
crime prevention
Abstract:The essays in this volume review the achievements of, and obstacles to, nation building in postapartheid South Africa, putting debates about the nation-State in a comparative political and theoretical context. Each section is concluded by a respondent. Contents: 1. Representing the nation: 'I am an African', statement on the occasion of the adoption of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill 1996 (Thabo Mbeki); Language and the national question (Neville Alexander); San and Khoe rights, identity and language survival in South Africa (Nigel Crawhall), respondent John Sharp; 2. Sustaining the nation: Gambling on investment: competing economic strategies in South Africa (Nicoli Nattrass); Sustaining the nation: environment sustainability, and economic development in a democratic South Africa (Rachel Wynberg); Moulding a new society: the RDP in perspective (Ian Goldin and Chris Heymans); Between equity and prosperity: confronting the impact of social inequality on health in South Africa (George T.H. Ellison); respondent Stephen Gelb; 3. Governing the nation: Swimming in a wild sea: the new challenges facing civil society (Hermien Kotzé); Co-operative government: a new political culture for a new nation (Pravin Gordhan); Social partnership in South Africa: is it a sustainable mode of governance? (David Lewis and Jayendra Naidoo); respondent Chris Tapscott; 4. Legislating the nation: Equality and the South African Constitution (Denise Meyerson) Advancing nation-building: the Cultural Rights Commission (Yunus Carrim); Diversity on the bench: transforming the 'pale and male' face of the judiciary (Oscar Jacobs); respondent Christina Murray; 5. Policing the nation: Reflections on the first year of the National Crime Prevention Strategy (Graeme Simpson and Janine Rauch); 'In the interest of justice': bail and the criminal justice system (Lee-Anne de la Hunt and Helene Combrinck); Privatising prisons in South Africa (Chris Giffard); respondent Elrena van der Spuy). Afterword: Hard-won democratic values provide a basis for optimism (Lynn Walker Huntley). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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