Post Apartheid Conditions

Author : Ian Shapiro,Kahreen Tebeau
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813931012

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After Apartheid by Ian Shapiro,Kahreen Tebeau Pdf

Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived several transitions of ANC leadership, and it averted a potentially destabilizing constitutional crisis in 2008. Yet enormous challenges remain. Poverty and inequality are among the highest in the world. Staggering unemployment has fueled xenophobia, resulting in deadly aggression directed at refugees and migrant workers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Violent crime rates, particularly murder and rape, remain grotesquely high. The HIV/AIDS pandemic was shockingly mishandled at the highest levels of government, and infection rates continue to be overwhelming. Despite the country’s uplifting success of hosting Africa’s first World Cup in 2010, inefficiency and corruption remain rife, infrastructure and basic services are often semifunctional, and political opposition and a free media are under pressure. In this volume, major scholars chronicle South Africa’s achievements and challenges since the transition. The contributions, all previously unpublished, represent the state of the art in the study of South African politics, economics, law, and social policy.

Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583670507

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We Are the Poors by Ashwin Desai Pdf

"We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001. It describes from the inside how the downtrodden regain their dignity and create hope for a better future in the face of a neoliberal onslaught, and shows the human faces of the struggle against the corporate model of globalization in a Third World country."--Jacket.

Author : Jon Orman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402088919

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Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Jon Orman Pdf

The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.

Author : Gary Minkley,Maurits Bever Donker,Premesh Premesh Lalu,Ross Truscott
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776140329

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Remains of the Social by Gary Minkley,Maurits Bever Donker,Premesh Premesh Lalu,Ross Truscott Pdf

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid. Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a 'post-apartheid social' (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.

Author : Kogila Moodley,Heribert Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111393653

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Race and Nation in Post-apartheid South Africa by Kogila Moodley,Heribert Adam Pdf

Author : Lindy Heinecken
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030337346

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South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military by Lindy Heinecken Pdf

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country’s new security, political and social environment since 1994. In South Africa’s changed political state, how has civilian control of the military been implemented and what does this mean for ‘defence in a democracy’? This book presents an overview of the security environment, how the mission focus of the military has changed and the implications for force procurement, force preparation, force employment and force sustainability. The author addresses other issues, such as: · the effect of integrating former revolutionary soldiers into a professional armed force · the effect of affirmative action on meritocracy, recruitment and retention · military veterans, looking at the difficulties they face in reintegrating back into society and finding gainful employment · gender equality and mainstreaming · the rise of military unions and why a confrontational, instead of a more corporatist approach to labour relations has emerged · HIV/AIDS and the consequences this holds for the military in terms of its operational effectiveness. In closing, the author highlights key events that have caused the SANDF to become ‘lost in transition and transformation’, spelling out some lessons learned. The conclusions she draws are pertinent for the future of defence, security and civil-military relations of countries around the world.

Author : M. Neocosmos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Alien labor
ISBN : 9782869782006

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From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa by M. Neocosmos Pdf

Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the field of politics. In South Africa, its history is connected to the manner citizenship has been conceived and fought over during the past fifty years at least. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw it as the very foundation of that oppressive system. However, only those who could show a family connection with the colonial/apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion.

Author : Wessel Le Roux,Karin Van Marle
Publisher : Unisa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1868884058

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Post-apartheid Fragments by Wessel Le Roux,Karin Van Marle Pdf

Discusses the tension between public and private and between equality and dignity; the notions of sovereignty; aesthetics; action and revolt in South Africa.

Author : Vishwas Satgar
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776143061

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Racism After Apartheid by Vishwas Satgar Pdf

Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.

Author : Ellen WesemŸller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783898214988

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African Nationalism from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ellen WesemŸller Pdf

With the help of discourse analysis and ideology critique, Ellen Wesemüller establishes a theoretical framework to analyze African nationalism in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Following the constructivist school of thought, the study adopts the assumption that nations are "imagined communities" which are built on "invented traditions". It shows that historically and analytically, there are two distinct concepts of nationalism: "constitutional" and "ethnic" nationalism. These concepts can be retraced in South Africa where they form the central antagonism of black political thought. The study of post-apartheid African nationalism is placed in its historical perspective by focusing on the major milestones of African National Congress' discourse before and during apartheid. It demonstrates that throughout its history, the ANC was characterized by the rivalry between concepts of "constitutional" and "ethnic" nationalism. While the former concept found its counterpart in Charterism, the latter was adopted by African nationalism. Though the ANC in its majority embraced Charterism, it continually played with the appeal of an exclusive, racial nationalism. The theoretical and historical contextualization of the book allows for the investigation of the various dimensions of current ANC discourse on African nationalism. Wesemüller analyses different concepts of nationalism employed by the ANC and compares these models to those discussed in academic literature. She concludes that in post-apartheid South Africa, the historical dichotomy of Africanist and Charterist nationalism persists within the ANC. While early concepts of nationalism like Mandela's "rainbow nation" and Mbeki's "I am an African" paid tribute to Charterism, the discourses on the "African Renaissance" and Mbeki's "two-nation" address at least leave openings for Africanist interpretations. Furthermore, the analysis shows that nationalism is not only a product of discourse but also one of material conditions. The study provides evidence that it is not only the ANC that hijacks African nationalism in order to mobilize their electorate and push through unpopular policy choices. Also, there are compelling material reasons for some South Africans to adopt a nationalist agenda. This is demonstrated by the new "black" bourgeoisie that mediates the gap between rich and poor as well as black and white. African nationalism in this regard serves to legitimate domination and existing relations of inequality. It affirms an African elite while neither uplifting the majority of African poor nor threatening the material privileges of white South Africans. Lastly, Ellen Wesemüller gives an outlook on the political implications of a resurrected nationalism. The effects can be analyzed according to the two promises of nationalism: superiority over "outsiders" and equality between "insiders". Superiority in post-apartheid South Africa is established over other African countries, immigrants and inner South African groups that are considered "foreign".

Author : Vusi Gumede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1604979291

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Post-Apartheid South Africa by Vusi Gumede Pdf

Introduction -- Development dilemmas -- The post-apartheid development experience -- Evolution of policy in post-apartheid South Africa -- Nation building -- Social and economic transformation : policies and prospects -- Conclusion: towards an inclusive society

Author : D. Hook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137033000

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(Post)apartheid Conditions by D. Hook Pdf

(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.

Author : Oscar A. Barbarin,Linda M. Richter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136688720

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Mandela's Children by Oscar A. Barbarin,Linda M. Richter Pdf

There is a gap between the hope for improved social conditions in post-apartheid South Africa and the grim reality of black life there is especially striking for South African children who face serious threats to their health and development as a consequence of poverty, racism, violence, and residual social inequality. Mandela's Children presents the contrasting conditions of hope and peril that characterize life in South African families, schools, and communities. Using empirical data and qualitative case studies, the authors analyze and discuss research on children's behavioral, emotional, and academic development and how they are influenced by community violence, household poverty and family functioning. This discussion is balanced by one that considers the competence, health and resilience of South African children.

Author : Haroon Bhorat,S. M. Ravi Kanbur
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0796921229

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Poverty and Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa by Haroon Bhorat,S. M. Ravi Kanbur Pdf

The political freedoms ushered in by the post 1994 transition were seen at that time as the basis for redressing long-standing economic deprivations suffered by the majority of the population. The reduction of poverty, in all its dimensions, was the goal. The volume will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and to the technical staff of international agencies and government ministries.

Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113415298

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We Are the Poors by Ashwin Desai Pdf

"We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001. It describes from the inside how the downtrodden regain their dignity and create hope for a better future in the face of a neoliberal onslaught, and shows the human faces of the struggle against the corporate model of globalization in a Third World country."--Jacket.