In the transition from apartheid rule to democratic governance in
South Africa, what has been the impact on South African society at
its base-on the people in the country's cities, towns, villages,
and farms? Louis Picard and Thomas Mogale offer answers to this
fundamental question, tracing historical trends and measuring
change (or the lack of it) in the dynamic between the promise of
local participatory governance and the realities of a hierarchical
state. They examine the human dynamics of governance: The legacy of
urban apartheid townships and rural homelands (or Bantustans) and
its impact on local governance; intergovernmental relationships;
and civil society. Their concern is with the state-centric manner
in which the apartheid regime controlled black South Africans and
the implications of this control for post apartheid South Africa.
At the subnational government level they identify two trends: (1) A
promise of-or at least the demand for - local participatory
governance and (2) Local political elites trying to impose
political structures and processes on society. This book examines
the clash between those two historical trends and addresses the
concern that South Africans may one day share the fate of many in
the rest of Africa, particularly those who reside in its urban
slums and in its rural areas.
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