A Flawed Freedom Rethinking Southern African Liberation

by Saul, John S.

• ISBN13: 9780745334806
• ISBN10: 0745334806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-20
• Publisher: UCP

Summary

Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S Saul reexamines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.

In A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking South African Liberation, Saul examines the grim reality of southern Africa's contemporary post-'liberation' plight, drawing on the insights of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.

Saul examines the ongoing 'rebellion of the poor', including the recent Marikana massacre, that have begun to undermine the ANC's inherited hegemony and signal the possibility of a new and more hopeful future.

Author Biography

John S. Saul is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 by the Canadian Association of African Studies for his writing and lecturing on South Africa.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: 'Globalization Made Me Do It' versus 'the Struggle Continues'
1. The Failure of Southern African Liberation?
2. Learning from Tanzania: First Steps in a Long March
3. The Recolonization of Mozambique: Not Then But Now
4. On Taming a Revolution: The ANC and the Bleak Denouement to the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
5. Resistance Redefined: Proletariat, Precariat and the Terms of Possible Revival in Africa
6. Conclusions: The Struggle Really Does Continue in Southern Africa
A. The Southern African Victory: Liberation Realized or Prelude to Recolonization?
B. The New Struggle: On Liberating Liberation in South Africa
C. What Next?
Appendix: 'More Comfortably Without Her?': Ruth First as Writer and Activist