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• Introduction - Jan-Erik Lane and Murray Faure The Salient Features of the Interim Constitution - Joh J van Tonder The New South African Constitution - Dirk Kotz[ac]e The President and the Executive - Robert Schrire The Constitutional Court - Kierin O'Malley The Electoral System - Murray Faure South Africa's Party System - Susan Botha South Africa's Changing External Relations - Marie Muller The New South Africa and the Armed Forces - Deon Fourie Administrative Justice in the Public Service - Dirk J Brynard A Public Administration Interpretation of
• Section 24 of the Constitution Relations between State, Capital and Labor in South Africa - Louwrens Pretorius Towards Corporatism? The Politics of Affirmative Action in the Old and the New South Africa - Pierre Hugo The Reconstruction and Development Programme - Robert Cameron South Africa's Constitutional Development - Andr[ac]e Louw The New Parliament - Hennie Kotz[ac]e Transforming the Westminster Heritage.
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The Republic of South Africa (RSA) held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. They were a highly visible signal that the RSA is really moving from the era of apartheid towards a democratic constitutional state. The process is an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms. The contributors to this book, leading South African political scientists, discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the RSA's political and legal institutions. They address various aspects of constitutional design and their interactions with social forces. They examine the new constitution, the roles of president and executive, the electoral, party and parliamentary systems, and the Constitutional Court. They look at the public service, at questions of labour and corporatism, at the RSA's changing external relations and at the position of the armed forces. The new government's Reconstruction and Development Programme, of which so much is expected, is seen to be particularly vulnerable to the pull of opposing forces.
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• Forging an imperfect new order for South Africa
• Relevant chronology
• The Prince, the Princess and the Constitutional Lawyer
• From Isandlwana to Inkatha
• From the National Peace Accord to the First democratic elections
• Reflections and truths
• The Minister and his Advisor
• Achievements and failures
• Motion of condolence.

This book is about those aspects of politics and history that ought to matter more than others - those relating to how a just and fair society can be organized to minimize the inevitable evil of government, while maximizing freedom. The purpose of politics must be to create a society in which ''man will be what he was born to be - free and independent'', in the words of John F Kennedy. Too often in the past century, huge governments have been allowed to develop to bring social justice and fairness into society, at the expense of freedom. The analyses in this book show that present societies, like all those that precede them are based on oppression, though to a lesser degree. It is only the justifications that have changed. Now, they rely on the pretext of promoting social justice rather than maintaining safety and security, although none of these has got anywhere close to achieving social justice.

• 1. Introduction: Transforming Scholarship: Soberly Reflecting on the Politics of Resistance by Marcelle C. Dawson and Luke Sinwell
• 2. The Crisis of the Left in Contemporary South Africa by Dale T. McKinley
• 3. Voice, Political Mobilisation and Repression under Jacob Zuma by Jane Duncan
• 4. Barricades, Ballots and Experimentation: Making Sense of the 2011 Local Government Election with a Social Movement Lens by Peter Alexander
• 5. Insurgent Citizenship, Class Formation and the Dual Nature of a Community Protest: A Case Study of `Kungcatsha' by Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt
• 6. Unfolding Contradictions in the `Zuma Movement': The Alliance in the Public Sector Strikes of 2007 and 2010 by Claire Ceruti
• 7. Labour Strikes and Community Protests: Is there a Basis for Unity in Post-apartheid South Africa? by Trevor Ngwane
• 8. Agents of Change? Reflecting on the Impact of Social Movements in Post-apartheid South Africa by Fiona Anciano-White
• 9. Resisting Privatisation: Exploring Contradictory Consciousness and Activism in the Anti-Privatisation Forum by Carin Runciman
• 10. The Challenge of Ecological Transformation in Post-apartheid South Africa: The Re-emergence of an Environmental Justice Movement by Jacklyn Cock
• 11. `Tacticians in the Struggle for Change'? Exploring the Dynamics between Legal Organisations and Social Movements Engaged in Rights-Based Struggles in South Africa by Kate Tissington
• 12. How the Law Shapes and Structures Post-apartheid Social Movements: Case Study of the Khulumani Support Group by Tshepo Madlingozi
• 13. Managing Crisis and Desire in South Africa by Shannon Walsh
• 14. Transforming Contestation: Some Closing Words by Luke Sinwell and Marcelle C. Dawson Bibliography About the authors Index.
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Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa. Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements, this collection takes stock of the contradiction and complexity that is necessarily entangled in all forms of popular resistance. Through an exploration of labour strikes, legal organisations, community protest and local government elections, the contributors consider how different movements conceive of transformation and assess the extent to which these understandings challenge the narrative of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). An empirically grounded analysis from a coterie of leading researchers and analysts, Contesting Transformation is the definitive critical survey of the state of popular struggle in South Africa today.
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