an Eldis Resource
State of the nation: South Africa 2007
Political, economic and social trends in modern day South Africa
Authors:
S. Buhlungu (ed); J. Daniel (ed); R. Southall (ed); J. Lutchman (ed)
Publisher:
Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
Assembling academics, journalists, researchers and analysts, the State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 volume offers 23 diverse angles on contemporary South Africa in one comprehensive publication.
The politics section focuses on the outcome of the 2006 local government elections and issues of service delivery. The section on the economy examines the rapidly growing social welfare net, the state of public hospitals and health delivery systems, issues of water and the environment, and heritage and tourism.
Issues of violence against women, prison reform, the plight of South Africa’s former guerrilla fighters, the vast Zimbabwean exile community in South Africa, South African rugby and the role of the post-apartheid church all come under the spotlight in the section on society.
Specific chapters include:
- the state of coalition politics in the Cape Metropolitan Council
- disability and welfare in South Africa’s era of unemployment and Aids
- old victories, new struggles: the state of the National Union of Mineworkers
- rugby and transformation in South Africa
- South Africa in the DRC: renaissance or neo- imperialism?
- South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy.
