Research Catalog

Title

Mbeki and after : reflections on the legacy of Thabo Mbeki / edited by Daryl Glaser.

Publication

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Glaser, Daryl

Description

xi, 308 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

For nearly ten years - indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency - Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa's new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This Question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki's legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? -- Back cover.

Subject

• Mbeki, Thabo > Influence
• Since 1994
• Geschichte 1994-2008
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
• South Africa > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

GENERAL REFLECTIONS. 1.Mbeki And His Legacy: A critical introduction / Daryl Glaser --- 2.Mbeki's Legacy: Some conceptual markers / Peter Hudson --- 3.Why is Thabo Mbeki a `Nitemare'? / Mark Gevisser ---- THE MBEKI STYLE OF GOVERNANCE. 4.Machiavelli Meets the Constitution: Mbeki and the law / Chris Oxtoby ---- MBEKI AND SOCIETY. 5.Thabo Mbeki And Dissent / Jane Duncan --- 6.Civil Society And Uncivil Government: The Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008 / Mark Heywood ---- MBEKI AND RACE. 7.Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Racism, technique and the Mbeki administration / Steven Friedman --- 8.Towards a Common National Identity: Did Thabo Mbeki help or hinder? / Eusebius McKaiser ---- MBEKI ABROAD. 9.Thabo Mbeki's Legacy of Transformational Diplomacy / Chris Landsberg --- 10.Thabo Mbeki And the Great Foreign Policy Riddle / Peter Vale.

ISBN

• 9781868145027
• 1868145026

LCCN

^^2011371026

OCLC

• 682875235
• SCSB-11374150

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library