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9781782040804
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Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government
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Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Introduction. Analysing National Liberation Movements as Governments -- Liberation movements and African nationalism -- Exclusive nationalism -- The dominant party approach -- Fanon in southern Africa -- NLMs as party machines -- 1. Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa -- Settler occupation -- Colonial capitalism and economic development -- Political rigidity and nationalist response -- 2. The Evolution of the Liberation Movements -- Early currents of protest -- The ANC: from elite to mass nationalism -- Popular struggle and divided nationalism in Zimbabwe -- The origins of Namibian nationalism and the launch of SWAPO -- The stamp of history -- 3. The War for Southern Africa -- The struggle for Zimbabwe -- SWAPO's war in Namibia -- War and stalemate in the battle for South Africa -- The politics of exile -- From liberation struggle to democracy -- 4. Contradictions of Victory -- The political settlements -- Liberation culture and democracy -- The retreat from socialism: political transitions and macro-economic policy -- From market to meltdown: economic policy in Zimbabwe -- Life at the margins: macro-economic policy in Namibia -- Realism and neo-liberalism: macro-economic policy in South Africa -- Constraints and contradictions -- 5. Liberation Movements and Elections -- Winning transitional elections -- SWAPO: establishing electoral dominance in Namibia -- The ANC: establishing electoral dominance in South Africa -- ZANU-PF: claiming hegemony, imposing domination -- NLMs as electoral machines -- Level playing fields? NLMs and electoral institutions -- SWAPO and the ANC as electoral machines -- ZANU-PF as an electoral machine -- Dominance, hegemony, and democracy -- 6. Liberation Movements and the State -- Liberation movements and the post-liberation state
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Race and transformation: the civil service in Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa -- The erosion of the autonomy of parliaments -- Assaults upon judicial independence: Zimbabwe -- The autocratic temptation? Judicial independence in Namibia -- Politics and the judiciary under the ANC -- The arms deal and the ANC: factional politics and government agencies -- Liberation movements and the military -- The party-state in southern Africa -- 7. Liberation Movements and Society -- Liberation movements and trade unions -- Liberation movements and civil society -- Liberation movements and rural governance -- Liberation movements and the media: public broadcasting -- Liberation movements and the independent media -- NLMs in power: machines against society? -- 8. Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation -- Business-state relations under liberation movement governments -- Black economic empowerment (BEE) -- Land reform -- Political stalemate and economic crisis -- 9. The Party State, Class Formation, and the Decline of Ideology -- Party predation, primitive accumulation, and class formation in Zimbabwe -- Class formation and constrained opportunities in Namibia -- Transformation, class formation, and party predation in South Africa -- Politics and plunder in South Africa -- Party, class, and ideology -- 10. Fuelling the Party Machines -- The party-funding regimes -- The party-business empires -- State power and party funding: the machine as monster? -- 11. Reaching its Limits? The ANC under Jacob Zuma -- Zuma's style of governance -- 'Zuma Inc' -- Re-establishing control: from paralysis to pre-emption -- Street-fighting on the road to Mangaung: Zuma versus Malema -- The struggle for the presidency -- Zuma triumphant -- Continuity or change after Manguang? -- Conclusion. The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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Backcover
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ISBN 9781847010667
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Print version Southall, Roger Liberation Movements in Power : Party and State in Southern Africa Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,c2013 ISBN 9781847010667
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