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The Opening of the Apartheid Mind : Options for the New South Africa by Heribert Adam; Kogila Moodley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies. Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other controversial topics as well. The authors do not propose a solution that will guarantee a genuinely democratic South Africa. What they offer is an understanding of the country's social conditions and political constraints, and they sketc
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Heribert Adam; Kogila Moodley
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520354760
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities