Comrades in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa

by Heribert Adam, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, Kogila Moodley

This taboo-breaking study of the New South Africa was published byTafelberg in South Africa earlier this year, and now, worldwide by International Books. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9057270226
• ISBN13: 9789057270222
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: International Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Superb Analysis of Contemporary South African Politics

This book is mandatory reading for any political science major. In a media driven age where the truth is intentionally distorted to further political agendas, Adam-Slabbert & Moodley provide the cold-blooded truth about the hypocracy of contemporary South African politics. In so doing, they lift the veil of piousness surrounding the 'heros' of the apartheid struggle and reveal the true motives of these modern day pirates. Extemely thought provoking reading.

Highly reccomended for students, faculty and researchers.

"This timely book is comparable to a seminar on contemporary politics in South Africa. The authors are all veteran analysts of South African political changes since the 1960's. In South African terms, they are moderate left. Thus, they avoid the triumphalism of the celebrants of the demise of apartheid and instead comment searchingly on the dilemma of promoting liberal democracy while engaging in massive attempts to reduce inequality... Part serious-popular history, part comparative political analysis, part sociology, part academic journalism, the discussion is not for a beginner but for the reader already initiated into South Africana...The conclusion is rather sober: politics in the future is no longer about race but about the underclass challenging the "liberation aristocracy." Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and researchers." -H.Glickman, Haverford College Taken from: Choice. June 1999