This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development ...
The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.
Provides an evaluation of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC). This work is concerned with national politics, and takes into account the specific, local implications of the TRCs hearings and findings, with the uncensored voices of some of the survivors of human rights abuses, in whose name the whole exercise was undertaken.