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| Title: | South Africa - the present as history: from Mrs. Ples to Mandela & Marikana |
| Authors: | Saul, John S. Bond, Patrick |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 302 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Woodbridge |
| Publisher: | James Currey |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | social conditions political history apartheid democratization |
| Abstract: | This volume traces South African history through the European conquest into two decades of democracy. The current socio-economic paradox - one that finds inequality, unemployment and poverty worsening since 1994 - reflects Mandela's early 1990s' concessions, choices which reduced the pursuit of genuine socioeconomic and political transformation to the mere realization of what can best be termed 'low-intensity democracy'. Analysing tensions exemplified by Marikana, the authors consider potential futures for an increasingly volatile society. Genuine liberatory possibilities could continue to be vanquished - but that is not the only possible result of today's turmoil. Chapters: The making of South Africa ... and apartheid, to 1970 (John S. Paul); The transition: the players assemble, 1970-1990 (John S. Paul); The apartheid endgame, 1990-1994 (John S. Paul); Contradictions subside then deepen: accumulation and class conflict, 1994-2000 (Patrick Bond); Consolidating the contradictions: from Mandela to Marikana, 2000-2012 (Patrick Bond); Uneven and combined resistance: Marikana and the trail to 'Tunisia Day' 2020 (Patrick Bond); Liberating liberation: the struggle against recolonization in South Africa (John S. Paul). [ASC Leiden abstract] |