Reaction And Renewal In South Africa

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.