Law, nation-building & transformation : the South African experience in perspective

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Law, nation-building & transformation : the South African experience in perspective

Title remainder

the South African experience in perspective

Statement of responsibility

edited by Catherine Jenkins, Max Du Plessis

Contributor

• Du Plessis, Max
• Jenkins, Catherine, 1958-

Editor

• Du Plessis, Max
• Jenkins, Catherine, 1958-

Subject

• Constitutional history -- South Africa
• Democratization -- South Africa
• Nation-building -- South Africa
• Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
• South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
• Transitional justice -- South Africa

Language

eng

Summary

In this volume, fifteen contributors from the disciplines of law, politics and sociology reflect on South Africa's transition to democracy and the challenges of transformation and nation-building that have confronted the country since the first democratic elections of 1994. The range of topics covered is expansive, in keeping with a broader than usual definition of transitional justice which, it is argued, is more appropriate for states faced with the mammoth tasks of reform and institution-building in a context in which democracy has never been firmly rooted and the existence of widespread poverty gives rise to the dual demands for both bread and freedom. In the case of South Africa, the post-apartheid era has been characterised by wide-ranging attempts at transformation and nation-building, from the well-known Truth and Reconciliation Commission to reforms in education and policing, the promotion of women's rights, the reform of land law, the provision of basic services to hundreds of thousands of poor households, a new framework for freedom of expression, and the transformation of the judiciary. In the light of South Africa's commitment to a new constitutional dispensation and to legal regulation, this volume focuses in particular, but not exclusively, on the role that law and lawyers have played in social and political change in South Africa in the post-apartheid era. It sets the South African experience in historical and comparative perspective and considers whether any lessons may be learnt for the field of transitional justice.--

Member of

• Series on transitional justice, 15

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Provided by publisher

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Series on transitional justice
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

15