How long will South Africa survive? / RW Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, R. W. (Richard William), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zuma, Jacob.

African National Congress.

Zuma, Jacob, 1942-.

Economic conditions.

Politics and government.

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

South Africa.

South Africa--Politics and government--21st century.

South Africa--Economic conditions--21st century.

South Africa--Race relations.

Race relations.

Economic history.

Local Subjects:

Zuma, Jacob, 1942-.

African National Congress.

Physical Description:

xiii, 266 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Subtitle on jacket: Looming crisis

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Co., 2015.

Summary:

In 1977, RW Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zuma's rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, concluding that the country is heading towards a likely International Monetary Fund bail-out which will in turn lead to a regime change of some kind.

Contents:

Then and now

KwaZulu-Natal, the world of Jacob Zuma

The ANC under Zuma

Mangaung and after

The new class structure

Culture wars

The state's repression of economic activity

The view from the IMF

The Brics alternative

The impossibility of autarchy.

Notes:

"First published in South Africa by Jonathan Ball, 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849045599

1849045593

OCLC:

919076146