Constitution-making in the new South Africa
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Constitution-making in the new South Africa
(Studies in federalism)
Leicester University Press , Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's, 1993
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A review of the first phase of South Africa's transition from White minority rule. The main topics dealt with are the central constitutional issues of federalism versus the unitary state, and the search for a new electoral system. The central importance of the ANC to the process of political change is reflected in a chapter which discusses the challenges facing the movement as it re-establishes itself in South Africa, and its progress in meeting those challenges in the first phase of transition. One chapter discusses contending views of the post-apartheid political economy and another, problems of nation-building and the accommodation of minorities. There are two contributions on the crucially important topic of local bargaining on the shape of the post-apartheid city. Such talks will be vitally important in deciding how (and where) people live, and whether deals struck at national level will be workable. That political change in South Africa has moved as far and as fast as it has, is due in large measure to the profound and rapid change which marked the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s elsewhere in the world.
This international perspective is given its due weight in the book, with five chapters reflecting on, among other things, South Africa's "re-entry" into the international community, the ANC's foreign policy, and the changing place of South Africa in the perceptions of the West.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: South Africa since February 1990, Alexander Johnston. Part 1 The new constitution: federalism and the new constitution, Douglas Irvine
- an electoral system for the new South Africa, Bertus de Villiers
- constitutional negotiations, the role of mediator in South Africa, Gavin Bradshaw
- local negotiations, corporation and political symbolism, Doreen Atkinson. Part 2 Political culture, political economy and foreign policy in a post-apartheid South Africa: the ANC as a mass political organization, Yunas Carrim
- the Soweto Accord - an evaluation of a precedent, Khehla Shubane
- political economy of post-apartheid South Africa, Alf Stadler
- economic restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa, Ronnie Bethleham
- current constraints of South African foreign policy and diplomacy, John Barratt
- the ANC's foreign policy, Alexander Johnston and Sipho Stezi
- foreign policy of a post-apartheid South Africa, Peter Vale. Part 3 Constitutional comparisons: partition, accommodation and assimilation - minorities and national constitutions, Alexander Johnston
- Namibia - the making of a new state in the region, Andre du Pisani
- conclusion - experiencing South Africa in the 21st century, Christopher Coker.
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