Mbeki and After

Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki

Richard Calland, Jane Duncan, Steven Friedman, Mark Gevisser, Daryl Glaser, Mark Heywood, Peter Hudson, Chris Landsberg, Eusebius McKaiser, Chris Oxtoby, Peter Vale, Daryl Glaser, Daryl Glaser

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781868145027
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776141449
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa's new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki's legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki's role in shaping it.

INDEX

This index lists names and subjects mentioned in the text.

Abbreviations: TM - Thabo Mbeki; JZ - Jacob Zuma.

Compiled by Marthina Mössmer

Abacha, Sani 32, 258

Abahlali Base Mjondolo 118, 120, 124, 270

access to information 77, 88, 145-146, 155

accountability 77, 252 of elected officials 132, 133, 149, 268

Achmat, Zackie 148

acts

Cross-boundary Municipalities Act 113

Executive Members Ethics Act 78

Medicines Act 140

Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) 77, 146

Regulation of Gatherings Act (RGA) 110-120, 121, 125-126

affirmative action 16, 19, 26, 29, 56, 168

African Agenda 223, 232, 234, 235, 240

African National Congress (ANC)

48th National Conference (1991)

and Africanism 12

AIDS denialists in 141

authoritarianism in 13

centralism in 4, 15, 176, 260

and criticism 176

discontent within 60

dominance of 132-133

during Cold War 244

early policy of 167

elitism within 181

ideology 153

in exile 32, 260

Mafikeng Conference (1997) 8, 79, 101

and mass popular support 136

partisanship 16

Polokwane Conference (2007) 6, 8, 14, 33, 91, 92, 179

propaganda 134

and proportional representation 133, 136-137

top-down management style in 13, 22-23, 22, 246, 260

vanguard role of 136-137

and Virodene 145

and white opinion 167-168

and ZANU-PF 255-256

African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) 58, 221-222

African Renaissance 10, 54, 134, 213, 217, 220, 224, 251-253, 260

African Renais...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms
• General Reflections
• The Mbeki Style of Governance
• Mbeki and Society
• Mbeki and Race
• Mbeki Abroad
• Notes
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index