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Are South Africans Free? (Hardcover, New)
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Are South Africans Free? (Hardcover, New)
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Despite South Africa's successful transition to democracy and
lauded constitution, political freedom for the majority of South
Africans remains elusive. The poor and unemployed majority are
poorly represented and lack power and thus freedom. Under these
conditions, the freedom of the privileged minority is also
seriously impaired due to the costs of maintaining their relative
security and well-being. Lawrence Hamilton is an
internationally-known political theorist, who has spent ten years
teaching in South African universities. In this unique book he
brings ideas - political and philosophical - to the fore to
understand a contemporary political conundrum. He outlines the
persistent, unresolved problems characterizing contemporary South
Africa: poverty and quality of life statistics that are appalling
for a middle-income country, levels of inequality that make South
Africa one of the most unequal places in the world, skewed economic
and political representation that reproduces elites rather than
generating opportunities for all and an electoral system that
implements the idea of proportional representation so literally
that it undermines meaningful representation. Are South Africans
Free? aims not only to explain the current state of South Africa
but to provide positive new directions and suggestions for
institutional change. Hamilton argues that freedom as power in
South Africa does not depend on good will, charity or duty, and it
goes beyond the complete realization of the political and civil
liberties currently safeguarded in its constitution. Such change
will depend on courageous leadership, active citizenship, new forms
of representation and a macroeconomic policy that offers radical
redistribution of actual and potential wealth.
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