1st Edition

Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma

By Gerhard Maré Copyright 2024
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

This book alerts readers to the dangers of tradition as a formal, structured politics, which enriches a narrowly elite minority while overriding democratic rights, effecting a ‘state of exception’ for the governance of millions who are rendered as ‘subjects’ in South Africa. Gerhard Maré sets his focus on three powerful men – Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma – to... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Durban Strikes, 1973: Characters Assembled

2. Ethnicity Mobilised, Ethnicity Employed

3. Consolidating: 1970s and 1980s

4. Peaceful Change in a Civil War?

5. Continuities: Post-Apartheid or Post-1994 South Africa?

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

Gerhard Maré is Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. During his tenure, he served as Chair of Sociology and was Founding Director of the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity. He is the author, most recently, of the award-winning Declassified: Moving beyond the Dead End of Race in South Africa.