Thabo Mbeki's world : the politics and ideology of the South African president / edited by Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland.

This book explores Thabo Mbeki from an ideological perspective. Is there a central strand of thinking that informs his politics and his policy-making? It is of great significance how Mbeki builds, fortifies and interacts with his core base and his most important constituencies, especially in and aro...

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Other Authors: Jacobs, Sean, Calland, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pietermaritzburg : London ; New York : University of Natal Press ; Zed Books, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Thabo Mbeki: myth and context / Sean Jacobs and Richard Allan
  • Cry for the beloved country: the post-apartheid denouement / John S. Saul
  • Thabo Mbeki and NEPAD: breaking or shining the chains of global apartheid? / Patrick Bond
  • The logic of expediency: post-apartheid shifts in macroeconomic policy / Hein Marais
  • Does the emperor really have no clothes?: Thabo Mbeki and ideology / Sahra Ryklief
  • Thabo Mbeki, South Africa, and the idea of an African renaissance / Peter Vale and Sipho Maseko
  • Remaking the presidency: the tension between co-ordination and centralisation / Farouk Chothia and Sean Jacobs
  • Thabo Mbeki and the South African Communist Party / Vishwas Satgar
  • From 'Madiba magic' to 'Mbeki logic': Mbeki and the ANC's trade union allies / Sakhelda Buhlungu
  • Down to business, but nothing to show / William Mervin Gumede
  • State and civil society in contemporary South Africa: redefining the rules of the game / Krista Johnson
  • Mandela's democracy / Andrew Nash
  • Thabo Mbeki: politics and ideology / Richard Calland and Sean Jacobs.