Tag: liberation movement
BOOK REVIEW | Dear Comrade President
In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, African National Congress (ANC) president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through militant action.
BOOK REVIEW | A Brief History of South Africa
A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrative chronology and thematic chapters, the book encourages critical thinking about how history shaped South Africa.
BOOK REVIEW | Precarious Power
What happens when a former liberation movement turned political party loses its dominance but survives because no opposition party is able to succeed it? The trends are established: South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is in decline. Its hegemony has been weakened, its legitimacy diluted.
BOOK REVIEW | Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid State
This book provides an overdue critical re-engagement with the analytical approach exemplified by the work of Harold Wolpe, who was a key theorist within the liberation movement. The book probes the following broad questions: how do we understand the trajectory of the post-apartheid period, how did the current situation come about in the transformation, how does the current situation relate to how a post-apartheid society was conceived in anticipation, and what are the implications of what have been failed ambitions for progressives?
