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Black Politics in South Africa Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

Extract

The political scene in South Africa today is perhaps one of the most complex in the modern world. The easiest analysis would be to have the white minority government on the one hand, and the back resistance and liberation organizations ranged against it on the other. Unfortunately, it is not that easy. The white minority itself is torn by divisions and differences in ideology, with essentially two divisions into the right-wing and the centrists. Both camps, however, are themselves divided into various notches on the scale to the right, but never beyond to the left of centrist. That position has been reserved for black politics, which is also positioned at various points on the scale to the left.

Type
Focus: Changing South Africa; Vectors and Visions
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1990 

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