Paradigms Gained? A Critique of Theories and Explanations of Democratic Transition in South Africa

1998 ◽  
pp. 182-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Howarth
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Democratic Transition

scholarly journals Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Inman ◽  
D. L. Rubinfeld
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Democratic Transition

scholarly journals Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Inman ◽  
Daniel Rubinfeld
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Democratic Transition

Women and Popular Politics in Twentieth-Century South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Healy-Clancy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the history and historiography of women’s engagement in popular politics in twentieth-century South Africa. Over the first half of the century, women’s combination of marginality from male-dominated politics and centrality to social life made them critical to a range of grassroots movements. Feminist scholars have demonstrated how contending visions of nationalism aimed at transforming the state not only through moments of protest, but also by everyday transformations of social institutions. Women became central to both apartheid state-building and antiapartheid politics, often by organizing in ways that shared much with older forms of organization: most strikingly, they continued to mobilize as mothers. While women’s grassroots activism enabled the survival of the antiapartheid movement, an entrenched history of male leadership worked to women’s disadvantage in the democratic transition.

From Resistance to National Reconciliation: The Response and Role of the Ecumenical Church in South Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 369-384
Author(s):  
John W. de Gruchy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Reconciliation

Scattered through the history of the Christian Church are seminal moments that have shaped the future course of Christianity whether for good or ill. When later historians of Christianity will write about the twentieth century, I anticipate that they will refer to the role of the Churches in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa as paradigmatic both in terms of success and failure. They might also refer to the role of the Christian Church in the transition to democracy in both countries in similar terms. In what follows I will offer some reflections on the South African side of the story, briefly tracing the response and role of what I have termed the ‘Ecumenical Church’ in South Africa to African resistance, democratic transition and national reconciliation.

scholarly journals Business tourism under apartheid: The historical development of South Africa’s conference industry

Urbani izziv ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol Supplement (30) ◽  
pp. 82-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Mice Tourism ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Quality Infrastructure ◽  
Domestic Affair

Conference tourism as part of MICE tourism has attracted a growing international literature. It is argued existing scholarship is overwhelmingly ‘present-minded’ and that historical issues relating to the conference industry often are overlooked. Using historical documentary sources and industry press, this paper examines the evolution of conference tourism in South Africa from the early 1960s to the period of the country’s democratic transition in 1994. Under apartheid, conference tourism was primarily a domestic affair, lacked professionalism and quality infrastructure in terms of dedicated proposed built conference venues. By 1994 whilst the country’s conference industry did not have any global standard facilities, the planning for such convention centres was in process in the country’s three major cities.

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