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Title: | The state, crisis and restructuring: 1970-1980 |
Author: | Cachalia, F. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Africa Perspective |
Issue: | 23 |
Pages: | 3-45 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | political systems class struggle political economy constitutional reform |
Abstract: | The central theme of this chapter concerns itself with the crisis and attempted 'restructuring' of the South African state in the 1970s and early 1980s. The author views the state as a complex set of institutions: political forces do not exist independently of the state, rather they are shaped by its forms of representation and internal organisation. To reassess the nature of the state and its relationship to class struggle, the author focuses on the changing mode of Indian Representation, and in particular on the President's Council recommendations for a particular ethnically-defined form of Indian Representation within the formal juridical apparatus of the state. Contents: the economy - the effects of the transition to monopoly capitalism - the Botha regime and the form of state - President's Council examined. Notes. |