African Opposition In South Africa

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135277419
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opposition and Democracy in South Africa written by Roger Southall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the nature, scope and prospects for political opposition under African National Congress political dominance.

Author : Edward Feit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Opposition in South Africa written by Edward Feit and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064196
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa written by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Africa, Michael Neocosmos

Author : Edward Feit
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Opposition in South Africa written by Edward Feit and published by Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University. This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a compact answer both to those who wonder at the capacity of the relatively small white minority to rule the vast African majority, and to those who fail to understand why the Africans have not, by open rebellion, general strike, or some other means of dislocating the South African economy, acted to overthrow the white regime. The obstacles the African opposition must overcome to attain its objectives, whether by violent or non-violent means are noted as follows: the organizational weaknesses of the African National Congress, principally due to an inadequate communication system; ANC's lack of money, which impacts organizers and their ability to travel, and results in volunteers unwillingly using their own very scarce funds; and most importantly, a leadership divided by ideology, by differences over tactics, by regional jealousies, and by personal intrigues. In all these regards the African National Congress was seriously lacking, which inevitably doomed its efforts to failure.

Author : Martin J. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Capitalism and Black Political Opposition written by Martin J. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on capitalist economic development and black political opposition in South Africa R - describes the historical background; examines the evolution of the mining industry, the employment of migrant workers, social conflicts in rural areas, industrial policy, etc.; considers the ideology, legal aspects, economic implications and social implications of Apartheid, and the role of trade unionism. Bibliography and references.

Author : Tony Leon
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868424936
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On The Contrary written by Tony Leon and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of former Opposition leader Tony Leon provide a unique glimpse into the political life of South Africa in the democratic era. In incisive, finely focused prose, On the Contrary records Leon's thirteen-year leadership of the Democratic Alliance and its predecessor, the Democratic Party, years in which the party grew from its marginal position on the brink of political extinction into the second largest political force in South Africa. This is an adventure in ideas that involves vivid real people - friends, colleagues and enemies alike. There is new light shed on many of the figures who have shaped modern South Africa, including Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki. A trained lawyer, Tony Leon entered Parliament at age 32 at the dawn of South Africa's period of revolution and reform. He actively participated in the constitutional negotiations that led to the birth of the democratic South Africa.

Author : Carolyn Holmes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054635
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black and White Rainbow written by Carolyn Holmes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. ?Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the New South Africa written by Heather Deegan and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate and taught masters courses on modern South Africa as part of a politics, area studies, development studies or combined social sciences degree. This book provides an appraisal of critical moments in South Africa's history: segregation and racial supremacy, black opposition, politics under apartheid and violence and terror. The authors include up-to-date information such as the transfer of power in 1994, enfranchisement and political realignment, the post-electoral period of adjustment and socio-economic transition, the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the 1999 elections.

Author : Colin Eglin
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opposing Voices written by Colin Eglin and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without effective opposition there is no true democracy and without contribution of the prominent proponents of liberalism who have added their voices to this title, the situation in South Africa would probably be very different today. Helen Suzman takes pride of place among those liberals who devoted their lives to the fight for human rights and the rule of law in South Africa. From the start of a political career that spanned almost four decades, she challenged the iniquity of apartheid and used the privilege of Parliament to expose the inhumanity of a system that came to be defined as a crime against humanity. As a tribute to her extraordinary political life, the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish studies and research at the University of Cape Town, in association with the South African Jewish Museum, mounted an exhibition in her honour. After Colin Eglin opened the exhibition, David Welsh paid formal tribute to the guest of honour who used the occasion to reflect on her career. Both speeches are included in this volume together with a series of lectures which accompanied the exhibition.

Author : Ian Shapiro
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931010
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Apartheid written by Ian Shapiro and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.