South Africa Reborn

Author : Dr Heather Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135361363
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa Reborn: Building A New Democracy written by Dr Heather Deegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of South African political reform within a broad framework of global patterns of democratization. The text includes interviews with members of the ANC, the Inkartha Freedom Party, the National Party and township representatives.

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa Reborn written by Heather Deegan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317861027
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics South Africa written by Heather Deegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa’s democratic transformation in 1994 captured the attention of the international community. Politics: South Africa provides an acute appraisal of the critical moments in the history of South Africa, and examines the political environment in the years following the shift to democracy. Under the leadership of the revered figure of Nelson Mandela, the ‘rainbow nation’ achieved the transition with less violence than had been feared. A new generation of post-Apartheid young people has grown up, and the socio-political environment is maturing. However, the country still has immense challenges to overcome, in delivering services to its diverse populations faced with the impact of HIV/AIDS on communities and the economic demands of development. This fully-revised second edition includes two entirely new chapters based on the author’s recent research and interviews within the country, dealing with the legacy of the President Mbeki years, the implications of the 2009 election, and the challenges now facing the country under Jacob Zuma. Politics: South Africa is an accessible guide for students, and a fascinating appraisal of a nation which has travelled a long journey but is still trying to reconcile its past. Features include: - boxed discussions of key subject areas - chronology of important events - maps - appendices of critical documents and speeches Dr Heather Deegan is a Reader in Comparative Politics at Middlesex University, London. She was a Fellow of the Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria and was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand. She is the author of six books including the recently published Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security (2009).

Author : Guy C. Z. Mhone
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919713878
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance in the New South Africa written by Guy C. Z. Mhone and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major challenges confronting South Africa since the advent of non-racial multiparty democracy have been the need to promote democratic governance, economic growth, global competitiveness, and to improve the standard of living of its people, especially the previously disadvantaged majority Black population. These challenges have coincided with the ascendancy of globalisation with its attendant social, economic and political imperatives, all of which have consequences for governance and development at the national level, not least in emerging economies like South Africa. This important book assesses the implications of global imperatives for the nature, capacity, character and scope of democratic governance and the pursuit of equitable development in the new South Africa. A major conclusion is that the implementation of domestic economic reforms predicated on market fundamentalism, with its dominant logic and paradigm of globalisation and economic management, is incompatible and irreconcilable with the quest for democratic governance and equitable development. The contributors contend that such an approach reproduces a substantively undemocratic and inequitable society. "Governance in the New South Africa" concludes by offering some considerations related to how substantive democracy and equitable development may be promoted in South Africa on the basis of democratic governance and developmentalism.

Author : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783830961482
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa written by Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Lollini
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845457641
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa written by Andrea Lollini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last fifteen years, the South African postapartheid Transitional Amnesty Process – implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – has been extensively analyzed by scholars and commentators from around the world and from almost every discipline of human sciences. Lawyers, historians, anthropologists and sociologists as well as political scientists have tried to understand, describe and comment on the ‘shocking’ South African political decision to give amnesty to all who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes committed during the apartheid era. Investigating the postapartheid transition in South Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective involving constitutional law, criminal law, history and political science, this book explores the overlapping of the postapartheid constitution-making process and the Amnesty Process for political violence under apartheid and shows that both processes represent important innovations in terms of constitutional law and transitional justice systems. Both processes contain mechanisms that encourage the constitution of the unity of the political body while ensuring future solidity and stability. From this perspective, the book deals with the importance of several concepts such as truth about the past, publicly shared memory, unity of the political body and public confession.

Author : Sten Pultz Moslund
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772897844
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Use of History in New South African Fiction written by Sten Pultz Moslund and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike Nicol's "The Ibis Tapestry", and Zakes Mda's "Ways of Dying". Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying, categorisations of, Us against Them, are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection.

Author : Erik Doxtader
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864866134
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Fire with Water written by Erik Doxtader and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents 15 case studies of African countries whose recent past has been shaped by conflict. It examines the historical roots of violence and the potential for reconciliation and justice.

Author : Jonathan Farley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134388683
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Africa written by Jonathan Farley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major addition to The Making of the Contemporary World series surveys the contemporary history of the whole Southern Africa region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one succinct volume.

Author : Robert Edgerton
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786740094
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Armies written by Robert Edgerton and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity of their societies. During the colonial era, African soldiers fought with death-defying courage, earning such respect as warriors that they were often recruited into the colonial armies not simply to enforce colonial rule in Africa, but to fight for the European homelands as well. After independence swept through Africa, African military men seized political power in country after country, ruling dictatorially for their own benefit and for that of their kinsmen and cronies. The author describes the post-colonial civil wars that have devastated much of sub-Saharan Africa -- catastrophes marked by genocide, famine, disease, economic collapse, and steadily declining life expectancy. He closes by describing the role that Africa's military forces can and must play if the future is to bring better times to the continent's many peoples.