South Africa - The Present as History

Analyses the roots of power, patriarchy, ecological destruction and capitalist dynamics, of anti-apartheid resistance and of on-going movements against inequality and injustice in contemporary South Africa, to show how its contemporary realities are rooted in its past history and earlier struggles for independence. Short-listed for the Deutscher Prize 2014 In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since h