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Title: | South Africa: A New Nation-State in a Globalising Era |
Author: | Freund, Bill |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 56 |
Pages: | 41-52 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | global economy nation Politics and Government Development and Technology Economics and Trade international relations |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/181641 |
Abstract: | Postapartheid South Africa came to life as a 'new' country in the midst of globalization. The author suggests that while the ANC government has been won over by the need for participation in globalizing economic institutions such as membership in the World Trade Organization, with macroeconomic policies aiming at high interest rates, an autonomous Reserve Bank, low State indebtedness and the reduction of import tariff barriers, it has simultaneously, contradictorily, moved with increasing firmness towards a nationbuilding project along fairly classic lines. This movement has achieved greater coherence under the leadership of Thabo Mbeki than during the presidency of Nelson Mandela (1994-1999). In conclusion, the author argues that there are two impediments in the way of realizing Mbeki's nationbuilding project, and both are made more difficult by relations to international trends. The first lies in the dilemma facing South Africa through the marginalization of a large portion of the population; the second is the fact that whites are not very pleased with a situation which seems to emphasize black control and which perceives white traditions and institutions as immoral and inappropriate. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |