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13 South Africa’s new education system: great intentions – harsh realities By Linda Chisholm 14 The media picture: mapping the contemporary media scene in South Africa By Sean Jacobs 15 The language question. The struggle between English and the other official and unofficial languages By Kwesi Kwaa Prah 16 The impact of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa By Hein Marais 17 South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy By John Daniel 18 List of authors 2
1 Just another country? South Africa and Denmark in a globalised world By Gorm Gunnarsen, Patrick Mac Manus, Morten Nielsen, and Hans Erik Stolten The introduction chapter was written in Danish and has not yet been translated into English for this web-based version of the book. Nevertheless, here are a few introductory remarks on the book. As the List of Authors shows, the articles in this collection are written by some of South Africa’s best social scientists, academic debaters, and trade union and grassroots activists, who present their views on the post-apartheid transformation of South African society and offer their opinions on the status of social conditions. The divergent outlooks in this book provide a broad and inclusive picture of the country’s overall situation, since the authors do not agree completely. The first part of the book describes the social situation through articles measuring the magnitude of the poverty problem and investigating the significance of poverty for declining popular participation in the democratic process. The lack of justice in the truth and reconciliation process is problematised. The economic policy and macro-economic models of the ANC-government are scrutinised and the ideological debate on the lost ideals of the freedom struggle is revisited. Also the latest strategy for racial justice, BEE, Black Economic Empowerment, is discussed here. The present South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, describes the development of the ANC from liberation movement to dominating governing party, while another article is dedicated to the build-up of the grassroots movements of the new left opposition. Two of South Africa’s most well-known researchers in the area of education have provided very different articles on the problems confronting SA youth in schools, high schools and universities. In this English version, the book also contains statistical analyses of poverty in urban and rural settings in the different provinces and a mapping of the government’s delivery problems regarding electricity, water, and housing. The freedom of the press and the persisting racism in South Africa’s liberalised media landscape are investigated. The development of the trade unions from mass mobilisation against apartheid to team player in the formulation of government policy is explained and the expansive investment policy of the big South African conglomerates towards the rest of Africa is dealt with. The work with this book has developed in the collective spirit that characterised the international solidarity of the anti-apartheid movement. Beside the authors, who were paid only a symbolic fee for their efforts, the editors wish to thank the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), and New Agenda for their cooperation and active participation in this book project. Through generations of exploitation, buttressed by massive political suppression, values and wealth in South African society were distributed extremely uneven, and in many respects, this 3
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References M. Altman (2003) The Sta
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least 50,000 Mozambicans. This invo
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