Roger Southall

Liberation Movements in Power (eBook, ePUB)

Party and State in Southern Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government.


The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation andpredatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration.

ANC South Africa
SWAPO Namibia
Zanu-PF Zimbabwe

Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047483
• Artikelnr.: 56407072

Autorenporträt

Roger Southall

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Analysing Liberation Movements as Governments Settler
Colonialism in Southern Africa The Evolution of the Liberation Movements
The War for Southern Africa Contradictions of Victory Liberation Movements
and Elections Liberation Movements and the State Liberation Movements and
Society Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation The Party State,
Class Formation and the Decline of Ideology Fueling the Party Machines The
Mafia State? The ANC under Jacob Zuma Conclusion: The Slow Death of the
Liberation Movements