Reaction and Renewal in South Africa

by Paul B. Rich

Overview

This volume is a timely survey of the changes that have been occurring in South African politics and society since the unbanning of the exile liberation movements in 1990. It brings together a collection of seasoned scholars who examine a variety of themes and issues confronting the new post-apartheid regime. Individual chapters discuss the 1994 elections, the changing nature of the constitution and legal system, policy choices confronting the regime in such areas as the economy and foreign policy, and reconstruction in the old 'homelands'. It also discusses women in the debate on land reform as well as the continuing issue of 'ethnic' and tribal division in Natal. The volume explores the forces pushing for radical change in South African society as well as those resisting it, and is particularly notable for bringing a political science perspective to bear on the restructuring of government and the constitution. It is sober in its assessment of a radical break with the apartheid past and concentrates on both the external and internal constraints on the new government's freedom of manoeuvre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312161491
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/15/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction; P.B.Rich - Transitional South Africa: Negotiations and the Military; A.Seegers - Civil War Regions, War and Ethnic Mobilisation; G.Mare - Apartheid, The State and the Reconstruction of the Political System; P.B.Rich - Some Reflections on the Interim Constitutional Arrangements; D.Tucker - Legal Formalism and Legal Culture in a New State; M.Chanock - Reconstruction and Development in South Africa; N.Nattrass - Reconstructing Tradition: Women and Land Reform; C.Walker - The Restructuring of South African Education and Training in Comparative Context; L.Chisholm - Transkei on the Verge of Emancipation; J.Peires - South Africa's Foreign Policy: Current Realities, Future Options; J.Spence - Federal Aspects of the New South African Constitution: Prospects for Regional Integration; K.Woldring - Why South Africa is unlikely to follow the Yugoslav or the Soviet Route to ethnically based Fragmentation; N.Etherington - Index

Editorial Reviews

Contains revised papers from a June 1994 conference held at the University of Melbourne, plus two specially commissioned papers, examining political and social changes in the country since 1990. Discusses the 1994 elections, the restructuring of government and the constitution, the homelands issue, women in the debate on land reform, and ethnic and tribal division in Natal. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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