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Cry for the beloved country: the post‐apartheid denouement
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John S. Saul , ‘Magic Market Realism’ , Transformation ( Durban ), 38 ( 1999
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The original source of these quotations from Magdoff and Sweezy is their editorial,
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In his important volume (soon to be issued in a new edition), South Africa: Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transformation ( London and New York, and Cape Town : Zed Books and University of Cape Town Press , 1998 ), 156
as Marais quotes Anglo‐American executive Clem Sunter : ‘Negotiations work. Rhetoric is dropped, reality prevails and in the end the companies concerned go on producing the minerals, goods and services’ (147) .
See, on this subject, Dan O'Meara's magisterial study, Forty Lost Years: The apartheid state and the Politics of the National Party, 1948–1994 ( Ravan Press and Ohio University Press : Randberg and Athens , Ohio , 1998 ).
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Patrick Bond , ‘Social Contract Scenarios’ , Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa ( London : Pluto Press , 2000 ), ch. 2.
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As columnist Howard Barrell wrote in The Mail and Guardian ( 18 June 2000 )
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Bond (op. cit., p 200). See also Marais , op. cit. and Charles Millward and Vella Pillay , ‘The Economic Battle for South Africa's Future’ , in E. Maganya and R. Koughton (eds.), Transformation in SA ? Policy Debates in the 1990s ( Braamfontein : IFAA , 1996 ).
Manuel Castells , The Information Age: End of Millennium , vol. III , ( Oxford : Blackwell Publishers , 1998 ), the sub‐section entitled ‘Africa's hope? The South African connection’, 122.
27. Bond (op. cit., 193ff). For a further detailed critique of GEAR'S performance, see Asghar Adelzadeh , ‘The Costs of Staying the Course’ , in Ngqo! , vol. 1 , no. 1 ( June , 1999 ).
Colin Bundy , ‘Problems and Prospects for South African Socialists’ , unpublished paper presented to the Political Science Seminar, York University , October , 1991 .
Albo's seminal essay ‘A World Market of Opportunities? Capitalist Obstacles and Left Economic Policies’ , in Leo Panitch (ed.), Socialist Register 1997: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists ( London : Merlin Press , 1997 ), 28 – 30 , 41 .
John S. Saul , Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s ( Trenton : Africa World Press , 1995 ), chs. 4 and 5.
Gordon Smith , an economist with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell bank, quoted in Norm Dixon , ‘ANC reassures big business after win’ , Green Left Weekly (e‐mail, n.d. [ July , 1999 ?]).
Ben Fine and Zavareh Rustomjee , The Political Economy of South Africa: From minerals‐energy complex to industrialization ( Boulder : Westview Press , 1996 )
On this and other related points see also Carolyn Bassett , ‘Negotiating South Africa's Economic Future: COSATU and Strategic Unionism’ , unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, York University , June , 2000 .
The speeches are included in the final section of Adrian Hasland and Jovial Rantao's useful biography of Thabo Mbeki , The life and times of Thabo Mbeki ( Rivonia : Zebra Press , 1999 ).
Thabo Mbeki , ‘Speech at the Annual National Conference of the Black Management Forum’ , Kempton Park , 20 November 1999 (ANC website).
Closer to the truth, in fact, may be the frank and quite unequivocal statement of a brash emergent African entrepreneur, Tumi Modise , interviewed by David Goodman (in his strong volume, Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa [ Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1999 ]): ‘Race is not the issue anymore’, she told Goodman, ‘It's class’.
39. I have cited this statement (from 1984) and explored other questions posed in seeking to divine the historical character of the ANC in my ‘South Africa: the Question of Strategy’ , New Left Review , 160 ( November , 1986 ).
‘Statement by Deputy President Mbeki at the African Renaissance Conference’ , Johannesburg , 28 September 1998 (ANC website).
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Shamim Meer , ‘The demobilization of civil society: Struggling with new questions’ , Development Update , vol. 3 , no. 1 ( 1999 ).
49. The quotations in this paragraph are drawn from an article by Wonder Hlongwa , ‘Church asked to fight Gear from the trenches’ , Mail and Guardian , 10 July 1998 .
Sam Gindin , ‘The Party's Over’ , This Magazine ( November , 1998 ), 15 .
This has been further defined by Gindin ( This Magazine [ July , 2000 ])
Blade Nzimande , ‘Towards a socialist South Africa’ , Mail and Guardian ( 18 February 2000 ), 39
and also his ‘State should drive the economy’ , Business Day ( 29 May 2000 ), 10 .
(see Z. Pallo Jordan , ‘Ruth First Memorial Lecture’ , Witwatersrand University , 28 August 2000 for a particularly clear statement of this position).