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Domains of Freedom
Justice, citizenship and social change in South Africa
Editors: T Kepe, M Levin & B von Lieres
There were enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global neo-liberalism. That South Africa’s democracy has been unable to provide deeper freedoms is not necessarily a betrayal. Freedom is made possible and/or limited by local political choices, contemporary global conditions and the complexities of social change. Domains of Freedom explores the multiplicity of spaces within which the dynamics of social change unfold, and the complex ways in which power is produced and reproduced. In this way, it seeks to understand the often non-linear practices through which alternative possibilities emerge, the lengthy and often indirect ways in which new communities are imagined and new solidarities are built. In this sense, the essays in this book portray neither hope nor despair. Nor do they seek to situate themselves between these two poles. Instead, the book as a whole aims to read the present historically, critically and politically, and to o er insights into the ongoing, iterative and often messy struggles for freedom.
Limits of democratic governance in South Africa, The
L Picard & T Mogale
The authors track the transition from apartheid rule to democratic governance in South Africa to determine what has been the impact on South African society at its base—on the people in the country’s cities, towns, villages, and farms. They examine the human dynamics of governance: the legacy of urban apartheid townships and rural homelands (or Bantustans) and its impact on local governance; intergovernmental relationships; and civil society. Their concern is with the state-centric manner in which the apartheid regime controlled black South Africans and the implications of this control for post-apartheid South Africa. At the subnational government level they identify two trends: (1) a promise of—or at least the demand for—local participatory governance and (2) local political elites trying to impose political structures and processes on society. This book examines the clash between those two historical trends and addresses the concern that South Africans may one day share the fate of many in the rest of Africa, particularly those who reside in its urban slums and in its rural areas.