South Africa's Insurgent Citizens: On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics

by Julian Brown and Julian Brown

Book Overview

Twenty years on from South Africa's first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day - whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For many, this has signalled the end of the South African dream. Politics, they declare, is the preserve of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178360297X
• ISBN13: 9781783602971
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"