Now That We Are Free : : Coloured Communities in a Democratic South Africa / / ed. by Wilmot James, Kerry Cullinan, Daria Caliguire.

Against the backdrop of the heightened racial tensions between coloured and black South Africans, the authors explore how the individual interests of distinct racial or ethnic communities can be served without endangering the broader enterprise of creating and managing national unity.

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1996
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (147 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1 The Context
  • Chapter 1 Citizens of a single rainbow nation
  • Chapter 2 Voices from the communities
  • Chapter 3 The struggle for the Cape Flats
  • Section 2 Making Sense of the Coloured Vote
  • Chapter 4 The power of propaganda
  • Chapter 5 From independence to identification
  • Chapter 6 The devil who keeps promises
  • Chapter 7 Minorities together and apart
  • Section 3 Identity Questions in the Coloured Communities
  • Chapter 8 Unveiling the heart of fear
  • Chapter 9 Too long in the twilight
  • Chapter 10 Breaking down the borders
  • Section 4 Affirmative Action and Equity
  • Chapter 11 The RDP and affirmative action
  • Chapter 12 Motives, methods and milieux
  • Chapter 13 Treading the thorny path to equity
  • Section 5 Non-Racialism
  • Chapter 14 A politically incorrect view of non-racialism and majority rule
  • Chapter 15 Cultural diversity and national unity
  • Chapter 16 The Great Gariep: metaphors of national unity in the new South Africa
  • Section 6 Comparative Perspectives
  • Chapter 17 Diversity management in Canada
  • Chapter 18 Outlawing discrimination in Britain
  • Chapter 19 Diversity and assimilation in Brazil
  • Chapter 20 Power sharing in Malaysia
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript: June 1996
  • Index
  • About the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)