The manufacture of chaos and compromise: an analysis of the path to reform in South Africa

Title: The manufacture of chaos and compromise: an analysis of the path to reform in South Africa
Creator: Ryklief, Cheryl Cecelia
Subject: South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
Subject: Apartheid -- South Africa -- History
Subject: South Africa -- Race relations
Subject: Black people -- South Africa -- Politics and government
Subject: South Africa -- Social conditions
Date Issued: 1996
Date: 1996
Type: text
Type: thesis
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76218
Identifier: vital:30521
Description: This dissertation examines the factors leading to the opening of negotiations to majority rule in South Africa. It argues that changes to the socio-economic environment led to the growth of the strategic relevance of the black working class, and also created certain points of collision between the black working class and the policies of the state. These sectoral collisions engendered both the partial reforms of the Botha era as well as the rejection of these reforms by the black majority. The developments that emerged from the ensuing process of reform, resistance and repression in the 1980s weakened both the state and the black opposition sufficiently to allow for the emergence of a consensual solution to the political stalemate.
Description: Dissertation submitted in accordance with the requirements of the University of Liverpool for the degree of Master of Arts
Format: 95 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, School of Politics and Communication Studies
Language: English
Rights: University of Liverpool
Rights: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher

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