Product Description: The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a post-racial society and the persistence of racialized identities in South Africa, which has historically played itself out in debates between the ‘I don’t see race’ of non-racialism and the ‘I’m proud to be black’ of black consciousness...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to be a constitutional state? What impact did apartheid have on democracy in South Africa? What are the key issues and dynamics in understanding South Africa's political position? South African Politics: An Introduction provides students with an overview of how political policies have changed over time in South Africa, and how these policies impact socio-economic development...read more

Product Description: Xolela Mangcu has earned a reputation as one of the most vibrant and engaging public voices in South Africa. This selection of his best columns, published locally and internationally over the past two decades, is vivid, polemical and poignant...read more

Product Description: Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series—an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University—proceeded from in 2006...read more

Product Description: From high profile figures Cyril Ramaphosa, Albie Sachs, and Wendy Luhabe to analysts Wendy Lucas Bull, Vuyo Jack, and Itumeleng Mahabane, as well as practitioners Lot Ndlovu, Eric Mafuna, and Nolitha Fakude, this book brings together leading South African analysts and practitioners in a comprehensive analysis of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)...read more

Product Description: Xolela Mangcu is well known for incisive social commentary that characterizes his regular newspaper columns. In To the Brink, Mangcu turns his focus to the state of South Africa's evolving democracy. From policy controversies surrounding HIV/AIDS, Zimbabwe, corruption, and the constant labeling of black critics as 'foot lickers' of the white man, no relevant issues escape his analysis of the racial insider/outsider dynamic that has evolved under President Thabo Mbeki's rule...read more

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