The manufacture of chaos and compromise: an analysis of the path to reform in South Africa

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Title: The manufacture of chaos and compromise: an analysis of the path to reform in South Africa
Description: This dissertation examines the factors leading to the opening of negotiations to majority rule in South Africa. It argues that changes to the socio-economic environment led to the growth of the strategic relevance of the black working class, and also created certain points of collision between the black working class and the policies of the state. These sectoral collisions engendered both the partial reforms of the Botha era as well as the rejection of these reforms by the black majority. The developments that emerged from the ensuing process of reform, resistance and repression in the 1980s weakened both the state and the black opposition sufficiently to allow for the emergence of a consensual solution to the political stalemate.,Dissertation submitted in accordance with the requirements of the University of Liverpool for the degree of Master of Arts
Subject: South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-; Apartheid -- South Africa -- History; South Africa -- Race relations; Black people -- South Africa -- Politics and government; South Africa -- Social conditions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76218
Creator: Ryklief, Cheryl Cecelia
Rights: Liverpool University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Politics and Communication Studies
Rights Holder: Liverpool University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Politics and Communication Studies
Provenance: The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
Type: text
Extent: 95 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
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Publisher: Liverpool University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Politics and Communication Studies
Date: 1996

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