Liberation movements in power : party & state in Southern Africa / Roger Southall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southall, Roger.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe).

SWAPO.

African National Congress.

National liberation movements--Zimbabwe.

National liberation movements.

Zimbabwe.

National liberation movements--Namibia.

Namibia.

National liberation movements--South Africa.

South Africa.

Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.

Politics and government.

Namibia--Politics and government--1990-.

South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.

Political science.

Physical Description:

xv, 384 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Party and state in Southern Africa

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013.

Summary:

This text analyzes the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa. It looks at how these organisations have coped with power and how they have affected democracy.

"The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation and predatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration."--Book jacket.

Contents:

Analysing liberation movements as governments

Settler colonialism in Southern Africa

The evolution of the liberation movements

The war for southern Africa

Contradictions of victory

Liberation movements and elections

Liberation movements and the state

Liberation movements and society

Liberation movements and economic transformation

The party state, class formation, and the decline of ideology

Fuelling the party machines

Reaching its limits? The ANC under Jacob Zuma

The slow death of the liberation movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1847010660

9781847010667

9781869142483

1869142489

OCLC:

810119746

Publisher Number:

99963281984