Description
This book alerts readers to the dangers of tradition as a formal, structured politics, which enriches a narrowly elite minority while overriding democratic rights, effecting a ‘state of exception’ for the governance of millions who are rendered as ‘subjects’ in South Africa. Gerhard Maré sets his focus on three powerful men – Goodwill Zwelithini, Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma – to illustrate how, from different social locations, each has relied on claims to Zulu tradition to occupy powerful and financially rewarding positions.
Print edition not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Durban Strikes, 1973: Characters Assembled 2. Ethnicity Mobilised, Ethnicity Employed 3. Consolidating: 1970s and 1980s 4. Peaceful Change in a Civil War? 5. Continuities: Post-Apartheid or Post-1994 South Africa? Conclusion, Select Bibliography, Index
