Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Today in South Africa issues of political economy, including the land question, are necessarily coming face-to-face with a resurgent politics of difference informing long-standing histories of dispossession whose continuities with such politics of difference are frequently denied. Despite the country's “transition” to democracy a genuinely decolonial present has not, as yet, come into being. But from #Rhodes-MustFall to #FeesMustFall to the October 6, 2015, anti–outsourcing campaign there is a growing sense that the incompletion of the transition to democracy is being contested and that the interregnum is drawing to a close as something genuinely new is trying to be born.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Makhulu, AMB
Published Date
- January 1, 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 36 / 2
Start / End Page
- 256 - 262
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1548-226X
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1089-201X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1215/1089201x-3603319
Citation Source
- Scopus