Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception

Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma

Gerhard Maré (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032760056 (ISBN)

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This book alerts readers to the dangers of tradition as a formal, structured politics, which enriches a narrowly elite minority while overriding democratic rights in South Africa.

This book alerts readers to the dangers of tradition as a formal, structured politics, which enriches a narrowly elite minority while overriding democratic rights, effecting a ‘state of exception’ for the governance of millions who are rendered as ‘subjects’ in South Africa. Gerhard Maré sets his focus on three powerful men – Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma – to illustrate how, from different social locations, each has relied on claims to Zulu tradition to occupy powerful and financially rewarding positions.

Print edition not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Gerhard Maré is Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. During his tenure, he served as Chair of Sociology and was Founding Director of the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity. He is the author, most recently, of the award-winning Declassified: Moving beyond the Dead End of Race in South Africa.

Preface 1. Durban Strikes, 1973: Characters Assembled 2. Ethnicity Mobilised, Ethnicity Employed 3. Consolidating: 1970s and 1980s 4. Peaceful Change in a Civil War? 5. Continuities: Post-Apartheid or Post-1994 South Africa? Conclusion, Select Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781032760056 / 9781032760056
Zustand	Neuware