The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.
Provides an evaluation of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC). This work is concerned with national politics, and takes into account the specific, local implications of the TRCs hearings and findings, with the uncensored voices of some of the survivors of human rights abuses, in whose name the whole exercise was undertaken.
This volume chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa, once an international pariah, as a respected and influential African state.