After Apartheid

by Shapiro, Ian; Tebeau, Kahreen

• ISBN13: 9780813928272
• ISBN10: 0813928273
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-02
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country's history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived several transitions of ANC leadership, and it averted a potentially destabilizing constitutional crisis in 2008. Yet enormous challenges remain. Poverty and inequality are among the highest in the world. Staggering unemployment has fueled xenophobia, resulting in deadly aggression directed at refugees and migrant workers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Violent crime rates, particularly murder and rape, remain grotesquely high. The HIV/AIDS pandemic was shockingly mishandled at the highest levels of government, and infection rates continue to be overwhelming. Despite the country's uplifting success of hosting Africa's first World Cup in 2010, inefficiency and corruption remain rife, infrastructure and basic services are often semi-functional, and political opposition and a free media are under pressure. In this volume, major scholars chronicle South Africa's achievements and challenges since the transition. The contributions, all previously unpublished, represent the state of the art in the study of South African politics, economics, law, and social policy.

Author Biography

Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, is the author of The Real World of Democratic Theory. Kahreen Tebeau has taught at Portland State University and Willamette University and is a Policy Analyst for the State of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Politics and the Macroeconomy
Poverty and Inequality in South Africa, 1994-2007	p. 21
Black Economic Empowerment since 1994: Diverse Hopes and Differentially Fulfilled Aspirations	p. 52
Forging Democrats: A Partial Success Story?	p. 72
The Business Community after Apartheid and Beyond: An Analysis of Business's Engagement in the Second Decade of Democracy	p. 105
Macroeconomic Policy and Its Governance after Apartheid	p. 136
Health and Social Welfare
AIDS Policy in Postapartheid South Africa	p. 181
The Role of Social and Economic Rights in Supporting Opposition in Postapartheid South Africa	p. 199
The Rule of Law
The Pasts and Future of the Rule of Law in South Africa	p. 233
Anticorruption Reform Efforts in Democratic South Africa	p. 269
The Land Question: Exploring Obstacles to Land Redistribution in South Africa	p. 294
Language and Media
After Apartheid: The Language Question	p. 311
Contested Media Environments in South Africa: The Making of Communications Policy since 1994	p. 332
Notes on Contributors	p. 361
Index	p. 363
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