At the end of the rainbow

At the end of the rainbow?
Social identity and welfare state in the new South Africa

Editors: Gorm Gunnarsen, Patrick Mac Manus, Morten Nielsen, and Hans Erik Stolten

(This e-book is the full English version of a printed book published in Danish by Southern Africa Contact, now Africa Contact: For enden af regnbuen? Social identitet og velfærd i det nye Sydafrika, København, november 2006).

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Contents;

1 Just another country? South Africa and Denmark in a globalised world
By Gorm Gunnarsen, Patrick Mac Manus, Morten Nielsen, and Hans Erik Stolten

2 Rhetoric and reality in South African reconciliation
By Fred Hendricks

3 Macroeconomic policy in South Africa. From RDP through GEAR to ASGISA
By Stephen Gelb

4 Who are the poor? The size and structure of the poverty problem
By David Everatt

5 ‘Tomorrow will be better than today’: delivery in the age of hope
By David Hemson

6 From apartheid to neo-liberalism. What happened to the ideals of the freedom struggle?
By Patrick Bond

7 Black Economic Empowerment: politically correct capitalism or social problem?
By Neva Seidman Makgetla

8 The ANC in South Africa’s political landscape. From underground freedom movement to governing party
By Pallo Jordan

9 The transformation of the South African trade union movement and the challenges
By John Appolis

10 The grassroots. The rise of the new social movements in South Africa. The role of the opposition
By Eddie Cottle

11 Land redistribution in South Africa: the property clause revisited
By Lungisile Ntsebeza

12 Learning, living and leading: education in the new South Africa
By Jonathan Jansen

13 South Africa’s new education system: great intentions – harsh realities
By Linda Chisholm

14 The media picture: mapping the contemporary media scene in South Africa
By Sean Jacobs

15 The language question. The struggle between English and the other official and unofficial languages
By Kwesi Kwaa Prah

16 The impact of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa
By Hein Marais

17 South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy
By John Daniel

18 List of authors