New South African Review 3: The Second Phase - Tragedy or Farce? - Softcover

Allais, Stephanie; Attwell, William; Booysen, Susan; Cock, Jacklyn; Daniel, John; Fig, David; Forslund, Dick; Maylam, Paul; Moorman, Julia; Motala, Shireen; Naidoo, Prishani; Naidoo, Vinothan; Naidu, Sanusha; Nicol, Martin; Pillay, Devan; Ramdeen, Marisha; Rispel, Laetitia; Southall, Roger; Veriava, Ahmed; Vincent, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868147355 ISBN 13: 9781868147359

Publisher: Wits University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce ... (Karl Marx 1852) <br><br>In the face of the continuing national tragedy of the inequality, poverty and unemployment which have triggered rising working- class discontent around the country, the ANC announced a ‘second phase’ of the ‘national democratic revolution’ to deal with the challenges. Ironically, the ANC post-Mangaung has resolved to preserve the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex that defined racial capitalism – while at the same time ratcheting up the revolutionary rhetoric to keep the working class and marginalised onside. If the ‘first phase’ was a tragedy of the unmet expectations of the majority, is the ‘second phase’ likely to be a farce? The chapters in this volume are written by experts in their fields and address issues of politics, power and social class; economy, ecology and labour; public policy and social practice; and South Africa beyond its borders. They examine some of these challenges, and indicate that they are as much about the defective content of policies as their poor implementation. The third volume of the New South African Review continues the series by providing in-depth analyses of the key issues facing our country today.

About this title

Review:

The <em>New South African Review</em> offers, for the third time, a valuable compass to navigate us through South(ern) African socio-economic and political realities. It is an important stocktaking exercise. With every year, the <em>New South African Review</em> becomes an ever more important tool for analytical insights into, and assessments of, the challenges. - Henning Melber, Director Emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foun- dation in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria; and Research Associate with the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State.

About the Author:

<strong>John Daniel</strong> is the retired Academic Director of the School for International Training in Durban, South Africa. <strong>Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay</strong> and <strong>Roger Southall</strong> are all in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1868147355
• ISBN 13: 9781868147359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Daniel John, Naidoo Prishani, Pillay Devan, Southall Roger