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Hope for South Africa? (Paperback, New)
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Hope for South Africa? (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R188
Discovery Miles 1 880
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Is there a path of peaceful evolutionary change for South Africa?
Gann and Duignan have long thought so. The shooting at Sharpeville
in 1960 focused worldwide attention on South Africa's politics;
since then South Africa and its future have been regarded in the
West as a continuing morality play, with whites standing staunchly
against blacks and wrong pitted against right. South Africa in this
view is a powder keg ready to explode-a land where the clock stands
forever at five minutes to midnight. Dissenting from this view,
L.H. Gann and Peter Duignan have consistently argued that the
ruling Afrikaner establishment would, in and of itself, initiate
far-reaching political, economic, and social changes without a
breakdown in the economy. The authors' controversial views have
been remarkably accurate. In this book the authors consider the
recent reforms initiated by President F.W. de Klerk and the
willingness of Pretoria to negotiate with the African Congress and
leaders such as Nelson Mandela. They examine the country's power
structure (armed forces, police, arms industry), economy, politics
and the ways in which these various branches of government and the
private sector interact. If apartheid is dissolved and a peaceful
political system allowed to evolve, they envision a prosperous
South Africa built on the principles of a free market economy and
parliamentary compromise. This prosperity will become the engine of
development for the whole of southern Africa.
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