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Title: | The disintegration of apartheid: from violence to reconstruction |
Authors: | Morris, Mike Hindson, Doug |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | South African Review - SARS |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 152-170 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | violence apartheid |
Abstract: | The roots of the violence that is so terrifyingly pervasive in the black townships of South Africa must be sought not in the continued implementation of apartheid forms of social control but in the collapse of these forms; not in the continued maintenance of apartheid but in the attempted institutionalization of a new social basis. The disintegration of apartheid has been accompanied by, and given rise to, a variety of economic, social and political processes which shape the contours of the violence: rapid urbanization, increasing class differentiation, struggles between geographically and socially distinct urbanizing communities over scarce residential resources, and major political struggles between competing power centres (the ANC and Inkatha). The solutions to the violence offered by the authors are concerned with the broader macro issues at stake in South Africa: urban reconstruction, growth paths, redistribution and national reconciliation of the competing power centres. |