How long will South Africa survive?

Twenty years of ANC rule have shown conclusively that the party is hopelessly ill-equipped for this task. How long will South Africa survive?
Johnson, R. W.
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Title: How long will South Africa survive?
Subtitle: The looming crisis
Author: R. W. Johnson
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Cape Town; Johannesburg; South Africa, 2015
ISBN 9781868426348 / ISBN 978-1-86842-634-8
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 266 pages

Description:

In 1977 R. W. Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zumas rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, concluding that the country is heading towards a likely International Monetary Fund bail-out which will in turn lead to a regime change. 'The big question about ANC rule', writes R. W. Johnson, 'is whether African nationalism, which had elsewhere conquered only poorer agrarian economies and societies, would be able to cope with the challenges of running a modern industrial economy. Twenty years of ANC rule have shown conclusively that the party is hopelessly ill-equipped for this task. Indeed, everything suggests that South Africa under the ANC is fast slipping backward and that even the survival of South Africa as a unitary state cannot be taken for granted.' Johnsons analysis is strikingly original and cogently argued. He has for several decades now been a senior international commentator on South African affairs, known for his lucid analysis and complete lack of deference towards the conventional wisdom.

Content: How long will South Africa survive?

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
PREFACE
Then and Now
KwaZulu-Natal, the World of Jacob Zuma
The ANC Under Zuma
Mangaung and After
The New Class Structure
Culture Wars
The State s Repression of Economic Activity
The View from the IMF
The Brics Alternative
The Impossibility of Autarchy
Notes
Index