Ironic Victory Liberalism in Post-Liberation South Africa

by Johnson, R. W.; Welsh, David; Husemeyer, Libby

• ISBN13: 9780195716849
• ISBN10: 0195716841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers in South Africa on the currency of the term and conceptions of liberalism in various sectors of South African society since 1994.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Helen Suzman
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction: The Liberal Inheritance	1	(22)
David Welsh
The new constitution: a triumph for liberalism? A positive view	23	(8)
John Dugard
The new constitution: a triumph for liberalism? Some doubts	31	(14)
Anthea Jeffery
Liberalism and politics	45	(10)
Patrick Laurence
Must contemporary South African liberals be Thatcherites?	55	(18)
Charles Simkins
The rule of law since 1994	73	(68)
Anthea Jeffery
Liberal institutions under pressure: The universities	141	(20)
R W Johnson
Closer to home: student unrest and the welfare function	161	(14)
Charles Van Onselen
Liberal institutions under pressure: The press	175	(16)
Ken Owen
The press since 1994	191	(8)
Martin Williams
What role for the churches in the new South Africa?	199	(26)
Rachel Tingle
Freedom of education: a privilege or a right?	225	(40)
Monica Bot
Dee Wingate
Oppositions, difficulties, and tensions between liberalism and African thought	265	(28)
M W Makgoba
Why are there so few black liberals?	293	(14)
Themba Sono
The best of enemies? Black intellectuals and white liberals	307	(14)
R W Johnson
Affirmative action: is the light worth the candle?	321	(16)
Rachel C C Jafta
The holy cause that ends in tears	337	(12)
Denis Beckett
Liberalism, democracy, race relations, and the rising black middle class in South Africa	349	(26)
Lawrence Schlemmer
Liberalism and the future of South Africa's new democracy	375	(16)
R W Johnson
Notes	391	(6)
Bibliography	397	(13)
Index	410