New South African Review ― The Second Phase - Tragedy or Farce?

In response to the continued inequality, poverty, and unemployment that have served to trigger rising working-class discontent around South Africa, the African National Congress announced a second phase of the “national democratic revolution” to deal with the challenges—all the while preserving the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex that defined racial capitalism. The chapters included in this third volume of theNew South African Review, all written by experts in their fields, examine some of these challenges and indicate that they are as much about the defective content of the policies as their poor implementation. The essays address issues of politics, power, and social class; economy, ecology, and labor; public policy and social practice; and South Africa beyond its borders, providing in-depth analysis of the key issues facing that country today.

John Daniel is the retired academic director for the School for International Training in Durban, South Africa.Prishani Naidoo is a writer, researcher, and lecturer in the department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.Devan Pillay is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.Roger Southall is the head of the department of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand and the editor of theJournal of Contemporary African Studies. He is the author of Imperialism or Solidarity?International Labour and South African Trade Unions.