South Africa's democratic experiment is confronted with a central political dilemma: how to advance redress and address historical injustices while building a single national identity. This issue lies at the heart of many heated debates over issues such as economic policy, affirmative action, and skills shortages. Government has opted for racially defined redress while many of its critics recommend class as a more appropriate organising principle.
The contributors to this volume challenge both perspectives. Both scholars and activists, and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the authors explore the issues within four broad themes: the economy, education, sport and the civil service. Addressing the scholarly community, civil society and government, each of the authors brings their own unique perspectives to this question which is so crucial to the future of South Africa.
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| Section 1: | Race and Redress in South Africa: Debating the Concepts and Analysing the Statistics |
| Chapter 1: | Racial Redress, National Identity & Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South Africa Kristina Bentley and Adam Habib |
| Chapter 2: | Counting on 'race': What the surveys say (and do not say) about 'race' and redress Steven Friedman and Zimitri Erasmus |
| Section 2: | Case Studies of the Public Service, Economy, Education and Sport |
| 2.1 | The Public Service |
| Chapter 3: | Affirmative action in the public service: unresolved tension between nativity and non-racialism within African nationalism Mcebisi Ndletyana |
| Chapter 4: | Assessing Racial Redress in the Public Service Vinothan Naidoo |
| Chapter 5: | Set-up for failure. Race and Redress in the Department of Public Service and Administration Ivor Chipkin |
| 2.2 | The Economy |
| Chapter 6: | The impact of the Employment Equity Act on the South African labour market Geoffrey Modisha |
| Chapter 7: | Black Economic Empowerment and externalisation in the South African mining industry Andries Bezuidenhout |
| Chapter 8: | Transformation in small, medium and micro enterprises Diana Sanchez |
| 2.3 | Education |
| Chapter 9: | The migrating meaning of race and redress in education in South Africa, 1994-2006 Linda Chisholm |
| Chapter 10: | Race, redress and historically Black universities Sen Morrow |
| 2.4 | Sport |
| Chapter 11: | Sport for all? Exploring the boundaries of sport and citizenship in 'liberated' South Africa Ashwin Desai and Dhevarsha Ramjettan |
| Chapter 12: | Soccer, citizenship, and cosmopolitanism - the contemporary (South) African experience Ashwin Desai |
| Section 3: | Conclusion |
| Conceptualising an alternative framework for redress and citizenship Kristina Bentley and Adam Habib |
How successful has redress been so far? Are there alternative methods that may have more beneficial consequences? Listen to the views of Kristina Bentley, Crain Soudien, Geoffrey Modisha, Vinothan Naidoo and Zimitri Erasmus.
Duration: 9 min 26 sec
