Author: Dale T. McKinley
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 9781552669730
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Despite the more general social, political and economic advances that have been made under the ANC's rule since 1994, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but has increasingly been exercised in service to capital. This has seen the ANC become the key political vehicle, in party and state form as well as application, of corporate capital; both domestic and international, black and white, local and national and constitutive of a range of different fractions. As a result, 'transformation' has largely taken the form of macro-acceptance of, combined with micro-incorporation into, the capitalist system, now minus its specific and formal apartheid frame. What has happened in South Africa over the last twenty-two years is the corporatisation of liberation; the generalised political and economic commodification of society and its development; with all the attendant impacts on governance, the exercise of power, the understanding and practice of democracy as well as political, economic and social relations.
Author: Dale T. McKinley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781431425013
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Author: Heribert Adam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This taboo-breaking study of the New South Africa was published byTafelberg in South Africa earlier this year, and now, worldwide by International Books.
Author: Ben Turok
Publisher: Richmond, B.C. : LSM Information Center
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: John S. Saul
Publisher: Merlin Press
ISBN: 9780850365689
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Through some thirty years, John Saul has written about wars for the liberation of Southern Africa, and has worked with movements supporting liberation struggles. This collection of essays brings together long perspectives on regional changes and developments which culminated in the independence of Zimbabwe and Namibia, and the overthrow of Apartheid. Tony Blair has launched an Africa initiative that seeks to open the continent to business. Saul provides a critical assessment of what has, and hasn't, been achieved in the region. Is Africa in a Capitalist Cul-de-sac? Would a new left find a better Alternative?
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: John S. Saul
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 9781771131506
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Explores the ambiguities of the defeat of white rule in southern Africa, including the alliance between global capitalism and indigenous elites that has permitted at best a "false decolonization" of the countries.
Author: Robert Fine
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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This book provides a fuller understanding of the complex political reality underlying the struggle for democracy in South Africa. It is essential reading for all those concerned with the fight against apartheid, offering a breadth and depth of analysis that makes a singular contribution to our knowledge of the struggle.
Author: Alan Kirkaldy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030839208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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This book explores the role of social movements in the Southern African liberation struggle, through the lens of two ‘everyday communists’. Focusing on the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the author explores the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker, whose contribution to the party was more clandestine than that of leaders such as Bram Fischer and Joe Slovo. They represent how ‘ordinary’ people could play significant roles based on stances more rooted in common decency and morality than in Marxist theory. The book also sheds light on the interplay between transnational and national tendencies during the liberation movement, particularly between the 1940s and the 1960s. The Schermbruckers changed their views in response to the shifting national and international political landscape, the rise of Stalinism, and the flight of South African activists into exile from the 1960s. Both fluent in African languages, they were able to create relationships of trust with African members of the CPSA. Examining tensions and conflicts during the liberation struggle, this book provides fresh insights into ‘underground’ activism.
Author: Vishnu Padayachee
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN: 177614399X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Shadow of Liberation explores the intricate twists, turns, contestations and compromises of ANC economic and social policymaking with a focus on the transition era of the 1990’s and the early years of democracy. With the damning revelations by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on the massive corruption of the South African body politic, the timing of this book could not be more relevant. South Africans need to confront the economic and social policy choices that the liberation movement made and to see how these decisions may have facilitated the conditions for corruption to emerge and flourish. Answers are needed. Padayachee and van Niekerk focus their attention on the primary question of how and why the ANC, given its historical anti-inequality, re-distributive stance, come in the 1990s, to such a dramatic turn around and move towards an essentially market-dominated approach. Were they pushed or did they go willingly? What role if any did Western governments and international financial institutions play? And what of the role of the late apartheid state and South African business? Did leaders and comrades ‘sell out’ the ANC’s emancipatory policy vision? Shadow of Liberation tries to provide answers to these questions drawing on the best available primary archival evidence as well as extensive interviews with key protagonists across the political, non-government and business spectrum. The authors argue that the ANC’s emancipatory policy agenda was broadly to establish a social democratic welfare state upholding rights of social citizenship. However its economic policy framework to realise this emancipatory mission was either non-existent or egregiously misguided.
