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This little book is in no sense intended to be of use to insurance
experts. It is written by an outsider mainly for the ignorant, for
the multitude who either wish to insure their lives, or to whom the
insurance agent is for ever coming with his proposals, his promises
and blandishments. My doctrine is that every man ought to insure
his life the moment he arrives at a period or position when his
responsibility extends over the lives of others. If this duty were
regarded as an imperative one by the community at large, there
would be little or no necessity for the elaborate machinery
required by our life offices to induce people to invest in life or
other insurance policies; but as long as apathy prevails, such
agencies must be maintained and a ceaseless activity displayed by
the offices in tempting investors to enter into policy contracts.
At the heart of South Africa's 'miracle' transition from
intractable ethno-racial conflict to democracy was an improvised
nation born out of war weariness, hope, idealism and calculated
pragmatism on the part of the elites who negotiated the compromise
settlement. In the absence of any of the conventional bonds of
national consciousness, the improvised nation was fixed on the
civic identity and national citizenship envisaged in the new
constitution. In the twentieth anniversary year of the country's
democracy, "South Africa" reviews the progress of nation-building
in post-apartheid South Africa, assesses how well the improvised
nation has been embedded in a shared life for South Africans and
offers a prognosis for its future. It draws up a socio-economic
profile of the population which is the raw material of
nation-building. It measures the contributions of the polity and
the constitution, religion and values, as well as sport and the
media, to building a sense of national citizenship. The book
explains the abrupt discontinuity between the contributions of
Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki to nation-building and goes on to
note the changing focus from reconciliation between black and white
to include a concern for social cohesion in a society beset by
violent crime, corruption and citizen deviance and dissidence.
"South Africa" reconsiders the short, intense life cycle of
Afrikaner nationalism and portrays the ambiguous relationships
between African nationalism, non-racialism, civic nationalism and
'African tradition' in the ideology and practice of the African
National Congress. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive
analysis of a crucial aspect of South Africa's first twenty years
of democracy, as well as exploring intriguing questions for the
student of nationalism.""
This little book is in no sense intended to be of use to insurance
experts. It is written by an outsider mainly for the ignorant, for
the multitude who either wish to insure their lives, or to whom the
insurance agent is for ever coming with his proposals, his promises
and blandishments. The author's doctrine is that every man ought to
insure his life the moment he arrives at a period or position when
his responsibility extends over the lives of others. If this duty
were regarded as an imperative one by the community at large, there
would be little or no necessity for the elaborate machinery
required by our life offices to induce people to invest in life or
other insurance policies; but as long as apathy prevails, such
agencies must be maintained and a ceaseless activity displayed by
the offices in tempting investors to enter into policy contracts.
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