  <dc>
    <title>The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa</title>
    <creator>Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley</creator>
    <subject>African Studies</subject>
    <subject>Politics</subject>
    <subject>African History</subject>
    <description>Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and
      Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in
      post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely
      misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and
      false colonial analogies.Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson
      Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict
      and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so
      much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates
      from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African
      National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the
      ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other controversial topics as
      well.The authors do not propose a solution that will guarantee a genuinely democratic South
      Africa. What they offer is an understanding of the country's social conditions and political
      constraints, and they sketch options for both a new South Africa and a new post-Cold War
      foreign policy for the whole of southern Africa. The importance of this book is as immediate
      as today's headlines.</description>
    <date>6/28/1993</date>
    <type>tei</type>
    <identifier>http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft958009mm</identifier>
    <relation>http://www.ucpress.edu/</relation>
    <relation>http://escholarship.cdlib.org/</relation>
    <rights>Public</rights>
  </dc>
