Special issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 103, Number 4, Fall 2004. Contributors include Neil Lazarus, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Zine Magubane, Patrick Bond and Ashwin Desai. Topics addressed include the political economy of identity politics, South African ideology, globalisation and the post apartheid state, and bitterkomix. Notes, 290pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Brings together interviews with Moses Mayekiso, Mark Swilling, Karl Von Holdt, Devan Pillay, Jeremy Cronin, Colin Bundy and Neville Alexander, together they present a snapshot of socialist debate on the future of the nation. 192pp, 1992/2. BOOKMARKS.

Reviews the achievements of, and obstacles to, nation building in South Africa, putting current debates in a comparative political and theoretical context. Notes, refs, figs. 366pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP, 187486490X

A history of South Africa's transition to majority rule. The author looks in particular at the ways in which Mandela and Mbeki have responded to the unique set of problems which face the country and the attempts to knit the varied people of the country together to form a sense of national identity. Index, notes, b/w illus, maps, 370pp, SOUTH AFRICA, JONATHAN BALL, 1868421503

Adds to an expanding literature tracing the rise of new social movements in post-apartheid South Africa. Initially celebratory of the transition in the country, this volume marks a significant departure to a radical critique of the ANC's neoliberal agenda. It attempts to demonstrate the political and social uncertainty in post-apartheid South Africa. Contents: BIRTH OF THE OGONI PROTEST MOVEMENT (Sanya Osha); THE NATIONAL LAND COMMITTEE, 1994-2004: A CRITICAL INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE (Andile Mngxitama); INTERNATIONAL AGRARIAN RESTRUCTURING AND THE PRACTICAL ETHICS OF PEASANT MOVEMENT SOLIDARITY (Raj Patel); SUBJECTIVITY, POLITICS AND NEO-LIBERALISM IN POST-APARTHEID CAPE TOWN (Peter van Heusden & Rebecca Pointer); SEEKING TRADE UNION AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATION LINKAGES IN THE CAPE TOWN METROPOLITAN AREA (Mthetho Xali); CHANGING DISCOURSES AND MEANINGS OF REDRESS IN SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, 1994-2001 (Teresa Barnes); CONTESTING THE 'NEW CAPITALISM' (Gregory Albo). 255pp, SOUTH AFRICA . CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY.

There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary law studies highlight the artificial origins of these 'traditional' institutions. This book poses three questions: what is the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law in the new South Africa, why are they changing in this way, and, what does this teach us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world? Index, bib, b/w photos, 272pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialisation of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the 'distributional regime'. The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders: the insiders, now increasingly multi-racial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment. 432pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An overview of the mushrooming movements for a new humanism rising in the wake of the Second Liberation of Africa. The central problem for these groups, as articulated by Steven Biko, is that of investigating how the challenge to hegemony can be linked to a quest for a 'true humanity'. Collected essays explore how new movements may not only challenge neo-liberal capitalist globalisation but articulate viable alternatives that may raise the question of what it means to be human in the changing world. BNS, 298pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

The book sets out to measure how much progress has been made in South Africa's democracy-building project. Includes contributions from leading commentators Tseliso Thipanyane, Adam Habib, Peter Vale, Pregs Govender, Glenda Fick, Xolela Mangcu, Christina Murray and Judith February. 252pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA. 1919798889

Updated edition. A detailed analysis of the compromises that have been made, and continue to be made, between the past and present powers in post-apartheid South Africa. Includes a new and lengthy Afterword critiques elitist politics and neoliberal economics and accounts for the upsurge in popular protests against the government since 2000. Notes, index, viii, 384pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Examines the complex political transformations occurring in post apartheid South Africa. Bib, notes, 32pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171065083

After a decade of democracy, the widening of the wealth-poverty divide, primarily along racial lines, threatens the stability and sustainability of South Africa's democracy. However, Advocate Neville Melville proposes that if even a million South Africans join together to work towards improving the lot of their fellow citizens, there is every likelihood of the occurrence of a second miracle of a greater magnitude than South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy. Bib, gloss, 130pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AARDVARK PRESS.

This is the first volume produced by the Centre and Analysis Skills Strengthening Progamme (RASSP) These reports have emerged as the final product of a three-year project that the Centre began in 2002. This collection discusses the landscape of post-apartheid South Africa with stories that come from the profound depths of poverty. An eye-opener to the realities of what life is really like for the most marginalized and most vulnerable people in Souh Africa. 203pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY.

Illustrated large-format celebration of South Africa's multifarious scientific and technological research endeavours. 165pp, SOUTH AFRICA. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Considers the consequences of the coincidence of two revolutions in South Africa at the end of the Cold War. One was the completion of decolonization in Africa, with the advent of African majority rule and democracy in South Africa in 1994. The other was the emergence of the global mode of production as the pre-eminent form of organization in world political economy, that was to force revisions of prior assumptions about development strategies, international diplomacy, nation-building, class struggle and gender relations in all parts of the world. Argues that the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution. Index, bib, notes, 236pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Develops an embedded conflict theory to outline a new theoretical approach to understanding social conflict, arguing that public debates over policy issues like affirmative action are at a stasis because the debating parties are not directly contesting the real sources of social conflict. Divergences between interest groups in both societies are intimately linked to the racialized histories and legacies of these population. BNS, 256pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Examines facets of the South African transition: the distrust between the country's peoples, incomplete reconciliation and violent crime; the failure of schools and the government's skills programmes to educate South Africans; globalisation and how South Africa is failing to fill its place in Africa and the world the costs of BEE and transformation in the private sector and in government; problems of leadership. Index, notes, 341pp, SOUTH AFRICA . TAFELBERG.

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation conducts a yearly representative national public opinion survey called the South African Reconciliation Barometer, and the results this year constitute a stark warning. Confidence in leaders, and above all in representative institutions, has dropped sharply. In addition, approval of the governments performance has dropped by over 20 per cent from the 2006 year on issues such as transparency and accountability; correct appointments; affirmative action; crime; narrowing the income gap and fighting corruption. Tables, charts, col photos, 94pp, SOUTH AFRICA . INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION.

The post-apartheid public sphere in South Africa has been characterised by race tensions and distrust. Socio-economic inequalities and structural unemployment are contributing to wide-spread crises. In addressing the conceptual and empirical questions relating to the transition to democracy, the contributors to this volume take the questions of culture and identity seriously, drawing attention to the creative agency of citizens of the 'new' South Africa. They raise important questions concerning the limits of citizenship and procedural democracy. Index, 246pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Tells the story of the 'native question' in South Africa as it has related to white politics for over a century. The 'author' is the collective name of The Native Book Club, consisting of leading members of the ANC. Refs, 211pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SKOTAVILLE PUBLISHERS, 1919882049

Essays aimed at contributing to the establishment of a democratic political culture in South Africa by Annie Chikwanha, Kristina Bentley, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, Raymond Suttner, Ashwin Desai, Anthony Egan, Philip Armstrong and Hennie van Vuuren. Bib, tables, 151pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KONRAD-ADENAUER-STIFTUNG.

A study of the new patterns of politics and power relations which have emerged in South Africa under the Mandela and Mbeki administrations. Index, bib, notes, vi, 314pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852558708

A new account and analysis of South African politics. Looks at power, culture and resistance in the modern world. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, maps, 297pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521817218

Written by scholars, practising lawyers, members of the judiciary and the Human Rights Commission, and political leaders, these essays offer a range of perspectives on the development of South Africa's interim and final Constitutions. Index, 606pp, USA. OHIO U P, 0821414003

Looking at the new realities of post apartheid South Africa, from racial identity to truth commissions and architecture to film and television, the author discusses how the country has constructed its principles of reconciliation and return and how its historical emergence has meant a rethinking, reimagining, re-experiencing, relabeling and repoliticising of race. Index, notes, b/w illus, xxvii, 227pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 0816641080

Discussion paper 25. This study considers the context of global apartheid looking at international stagnation, uneven development and African marginalisation. The author evaluates the South African setting as a telling site of worsening inequality and discusses the country's proposed global reforms. Tables, figs, notes, 45pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171065237

'A rap on the knuckles of the prophets of doom with facts and arguments...The author provides arguments to strengthen the optimism of those who are hopeful and positive about the New South Africa.' Reading list. 113pp. SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA, 062027364X

Contains contributions from 77 authors, among them Johnny Clegg, Wendy Luhabe, Nick Mallet, Thabo Mbeki, Doc Khumalo, F.W. de Klerk, Patricia de Lille, Vince van der Bijl and Ferial Haffajee envisaging South African futures. Covers the broadest possible spectrum of issues in the process of reconstruction and development. These include: politics, the economy, social development, health, the media, sport, tourism, crime and international relations. Colour photographs and tables throughout. 363pp, SOUTH AFRICA. .

A history of South Africa which looks at the social, political and economic changes which have taken place since 1994. Themes include capital and labour, the impact of globalisation, foreign policy, the state of the universities, and pan-Africanism. Notes, refs, figs, tables, 503pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, 0798301538

A compilation of articles which originally appeared across a range of South African publications. Seepe is associate political editor of the Weekly Mail and Guardian. His writing critically analyzes South African politics and government, 1999 2004. Some reader responses included, enhancing impressions of political debates of the period. Accompanied by Zapiro cartoons. Co published with Vista University. 283pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SKOTAVILLE PUBLISHERS.

Argues that the structural legacies of the apartheid state embedded in systems of government have a continuing influence on the success of the new democratic government in South Africa. By focusing in particular on issues such as affirmative action, patronage and corruption, it examines the nature of political and bureaucratic institutions in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. He concludes that there is much to be learnt about the current state of the state from past practices. 416pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A consideration of the dynamics of international political economy and geopolitics in South Africa, reviewing Thabo Mbeki's relationship with the United States and his policies on AIDS, trade, debt relief, NEPAD, development, and globalisation. Illustrated with cartoons by Zapiro. Index, refs, notes, 266pp, SOUTH AFRICA. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press.

Documents the first post-apartheid initiatives of poor people to mobilise and organise them-selves. It analyses social struggles and movements in a variety of arenas, illuminating their demands, leadership and membership, organisational structure, and most importantly, their politics. It also assesses the collective effect of South Africa’s social movements on the country’s democracy and its socio-economic system. Index, 437pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

The story of South Africa's political transition told through multiple viewpoints and different ways of conveying it: articles, interviews, short stories, poetry and photog-raphy. This evocative review of South Africa's recent history includes contributions by Njabulo Ndebele, Jeremy Cronin, John Matshikiza and Viviene Taylor. Also includes work by Sandile Dikeni, K. Selo Duiker, Ruth Motau and Cedric Nunn. Notes, xvi, 366pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HEINEMANN SOUTH AFRICA, 0796209707

A study following the growth of community movements which have sprung up in response to the deepening material poverty of the majority of South Africans. The author links these movements with community and labour struggles in Durban and other parts of the country, culminating in the anti government protest at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001. 153pp, USA. MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS, 1583670505

Examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft. Ashforth examines the dynamics of insecurity in the everyday life of Soweto at the turn of the twenty first century. He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity and documents new patterns of interpretation attributing agency to evil forces. Finally, he analyzes the response of post apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state. B/w photos, bib., apps., xvi, 396pp, USA. CHICAGO U P