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Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa

Autor Allister Sparks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2009
In Beyond the Miracle, a distinguished South African journalist provides a wide-ranging and unflinching account of the first nine years of democratic government in South Africa. Covering both the new regime's proud achievements and its disappointing failures, Allister Sparks looks to South Africa's future, asking whether it can overcome its history and current global trends to create a truly nonracial, multicultural, and multiparty democracy.

Sparks sees South Africa as facing many of the same challenges as the rest of the world, especially a widening gap between rich and poor, exacerbated by the forces of globalization. While the transition government has done much to establish democracy and racial equality in a short time, as well as bring basic services such as clean water to millions who did not have them before, many blacks feel it has not done enough to redress the continuing imbalance of wealth in the country. Many whites, meanwhile, feel disempowered and confused about what role they have to play as a racial minority in a country they used to rule and regard as theirs by divine right. Sparks also covers other burning issues, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, high crime rates, the diamond wars, the Congo conflict, and the Zimbabwean land crisis.

Writing vividly and often quite movingly, Sparks draws on his decades of journalistic experience and his recent insider access to key figures in the liberation government to take stock of where South Africa has been, where it's going, and why the rest of the world should not turn away from this country where the First and Third Worlds meet. As Sparks persuasively argues, the success of Mandela's vision of a peaceful "rainbow nation" is crucial not just for the salvation of Africa, but also for the world.

“Sparks, a grandfather of South African journalism, has fired one of the first volleys in the 10-year assessment. . . . It is an even-handed work, almost encyclopedic in its breadth. Sparks traverses all the important political terrain.”—Mail & Guardian 

“It is as good a guide to the new South Africa as any.”—Economist
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226768595
ISBN-10: 0226768597
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 40 halftones, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 133 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Allister Sparks has been the editor of the Sunday Express and the Rand Daily Mail, as well as South Africa correspondent for the Washington Post, Observer, Economist, and Holland’s NRC Handelsblad. He is the author of The Mind of South Africa and Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Road to Change, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

Foreword
Prologue - The World in Microcosm
1. The Covenant
2. A Three-in-One Revolution
3. Out of the Bush
4. Portraits of Change
5. The Essential Freedom
6. A Prague Spring
7. Stroking the Tiger
8. Of Crimes and Confessions
9. The Great U-turn
10. For Richer, For Poorer
11. A Bitter Inheritance
12. Deaths and Births
13. When Saints Go Marching Out
14. An African Holocaust
15. A Bad Neighbourhood
16. The Foot of the Rainbow
Chronology
Notes
Index