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"Essays on the evolution of the post-apartheid state: Legacies, reforms and prospects is a compilation of research papers which are meant to generate strategic reflection beyond issues to do with the day-to-day chores of governance. The views across the essays may not be entirely consistent ; and the issues they raise may be contentious. This merely affirms the truism that the state is a contested terrain. The aim is to deepen the search for an understanding of the theory of the state as it applies to a transforming society such as ours, and to trudge the dividing line between theory and practice so they can feed into each other in a progressive spiral towards the desired ' end-state'. This book forms part of MISTRA's core research projects that were initiated at its founding some three years ago. Arising from, and in addition to, these projects, other themes will be pursued, as part the tortuous climb towards the summit of useful and usable knowledge." -- MISTRA's website: http://www.mistra.org.za/Library/Publications/Pages/Essays-on-the-Evolution-of-the-Post-Apartheid-State-.aspx

Post-apartheid era --- Democracy --- South Africa --- Politics and government

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After the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects. These ranged from huge new museums and monuments to small community museums and grassroots memory work. At the same time, South African cities have continued to grapple with the difficulties of overcoming entrenched inequalities and divisions. Urban spaces are deep repositories of memory, and also sites in need of radical transformation. 'Remaking the Urban' examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa's Eastern Cape as a case study.

Urban policy --- Community development, Urban --- Post-apartheid era --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality (Eastern Cape, South Africa) --- Nelson Mandela Bay. --- Port Elizabeth. --- collective memory. --- community museums. --- memorial architecture. --- post-apartheid memorialisation. --- post-apartheid museums. --- public architecture. --- urban heritage. --- urban transformation.

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South Africa is awash with policy failures, and policy confusion. We argue firstly, that our current discord over policy details has its origin in the (celebrated) negotiated transition. We hold that the vote count of an 85% majority in the Constituent Assembly in 1996 obscured the reality that the Constitution meant different things to different negotiators. The result was that South Africa, from the very start of the democratic era, lacked a national consensus on how to go about consolidating democracy. We keep on failing to build a proper roof over our democracy because the constitutional foundations are weak. In this book, we present a way out for South Africa from its persistent policy failures and policy confusion. We argue that in order to do so the major stakeholders in South Africa will have to jointly renegotiate the meaning of the Constitution. It is not a call for a new CODESA. CODESA was a conference to establish a new democracy. This is a call for a process to salvage that very democracy, where stakeholders will have to clarify what the pillars of the 1996 Constitution are: what does it stand for, what does it represent, what does it embody, and what kind of future does it authorise South Africans to try to construct.

Democracy --- Government accountability --- Nation-building --- Post-apartheid era --- South Africa --- Politics and government

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Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the “terrorist album,” a rogue’s gallery of apartheid’s political enemies collected over decades by South Africa’s security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police.

Anti-apartheid movements --- Apartheid --- Anti-apartheid activists --- Post-apartheid era --- Police