This collection of original essays provides an in depth look at how South Africa s government is tackling profound challenges including economic policy, AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education and how society reacts. Leading analysts show how missed opportunities during Thabo Mbeki s 1999 2008 administration can be addressed by Jacob Zuma s. But so far, the transition has witnessed continuity not change. The book provides not only trenchant critiques of inherited poverty fighting strategies imposed through neoliberal orthodoxy, including the two economies narrative and claims of a developmental state in the making. It also suggests new approaches that make more sense. In the wake of a political leadership substitution albeit a feint left, pass right (as did Zuma, the great midfield general, during Robben Island soccer games) there is once again a vibrant debate regarding alternatives. One reason is the intense community and labour protest that arose over the past decade. Social mobilisation is not likely to fade in the immediate future, whether via unprecedented numbers of municipal uprisings, labour strikes or social movement activism. However, there are distinct problems with each type of bottom up challenge. Sober reflection about the limits of social agency is required for the period ahead, given the experiences since civil society opposition emerged ten years ago. Chapter authors include Gillian Hart, Ben Fine, Andries du Toit, Greg Ruiters,PrishaniNaidoo, Franco Barchiesi, Fred Hendricks, LungisileNtsebeza,EnverMotala, SalimVally, Carol Anne Spreen, Jackie Cock, Hein Marais,Mark Heywood, Mary Galvin, Lenny Gentle, Trevor Ngwane and James Ferguson.

Zuma's Own Goal: Losing South Africa's 'War on Poverty'

EDITORS

Patrick Bond

Brij Maharaj and Ashwin Desai

Africa World+press

Zimbabwe's Plunge Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and the Search for Socexhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and the Search

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Natal Press

<p>The current global economic crisis resurges the debate on aid to Africa—the largest global recipient—and this comprehensive volume explores the premise, history, and foundation upon which the concept of aid is based. It considers aid's relationship to the broader development discourse in Africa, the politics and power dynamics of aid mechanisms, and how the emergence of powers such as China and India are redefining the global aid architecture. Diverse perspectives are shown from African social commentators, academics, and activists, including Demba Moussa Dembélé, Patrick Bond, Samir Amin, and Charles Mutasa.</p>

Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser?

Business & Money

Demba Moussa Dembele

Khadija Sharife

Samir Amin

Charles Mutasa

Bernard Founou Tchuigoua

Sanusha Naidu

Tim Murithi

International

Pambazuka Press

This book offers a history of murder and rape in South Africa. Based on confidential reports written by judges, attorney-generals, prosecutors and law advisers, it provides a disturbing insight into both the dark flow of passion that warped the mind of the murderer or rapist, and the judicial and political mind that determined who would hang and who would be reprieved. How impartial were white judges in sentencing black men to death for murder? Were men hanged on racial grounds? Were women treated more leniently than men? Were innocent men and women hanged? The book investigates domestic and public murder, ritual and political murder, wife and husband murder, racial murder and rape. Each chapter revolves around the narrative of one exceptional crime: the child murderer, Mietje Bontnaal; the husband murderer, Agnes Dhlamini; the wife murderer, Bernard Schoon; ritual murderer, Mkhandumba Buthelezi; the Cape rapist, Solomon Africa; the Transvaal rapist, Fish Maloi; the political murderer, Samuel Long; the farmer murderer, Samuel Makgaai; and the robber murders, Samuel Sikepe, Josepyh Ndwakulu and Jack Sheshonga (this final chapter is a critique of the myths perpetuated in Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country).

Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance

Economics

University of Cape Town Press

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