The Opening of the Apartheid Mind

Options for the New South Africa

Heribert Adam, Kogila Moodley

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520081994
• eBook ISBN: 9780520354760
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies. Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other controversial topics as well. The authors do not propose a solution that will guarantee a genuinely democratic South Africa. What they offer is an understanding of the country's social conditions and political constraints, and they sketch options for both a new South Africa and a new post-Cold War foreign policy for the whole of southern Africa. The importance of this book is as immediate as today's headlines.
Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• INTRODUCTION Methodological Approaches and Political Values
• CHAPTER ONE Colonialism, Communalism, and Democracy
• CHAPTER TWO From Confrontation to Negotiation
• CHAPTER THREE Prospects for a Historic Compromise
• CHAPTER FOUR Dilemmas and Contradictions in the ANC Alliance
• CHAPTER FIVE Psychological Liberation
• CHAPTER SIX Political Violence, “Tribalism,” and Inkatha
• CHAPTER SEVEN The Right Wing
• CHAPTER EIGHT International Intervention
• CHAPTER NINE Regional Relations and Development Policies
• CHAPTER TEN The Future of South Africa
• CONCLUSION Democracy or Elite Cartel?
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Selected Southern African Journals and Newsletters
• Index