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Drawing on focus groups held across the country, Southall explores the difficult issue of 'memory', how whites seek to grapple with the history of apartheid, and how this shapes their reactions to political equality. He argues that whites cannot be regarded as a homogeneous political grouping concluding that while the overwhelming majority of white South Africans feared the coming of democracy during the years of late apartheid, they recognised its inevitability. Many of their fears were, in effect, to be recognised by the Constitution, which embedded individual rights, including those to property and private schooling, alongside the important principle of proportionality of political representation. While a small minority of whites chose to emigrate, the large majority had little choice but to adjust to the democratic settlement which, on the whole, they have done - and in different ways. It was only a small right wing which sought to actively resist; others have sought to withdraw from democracy into social enclaves; but others have embraced democracy actively, either enthusiastically welcoming its freedoms or engaging with its realities in defence of 'minority rights'. Whites may have been reluctant to accept democracy, but democrats - of a sort - they have become, and notwithstanding a significant racialisation of politics in post-apartheid South Africa, they remain an important segment of the \"rainbow\", although dangers lurk in the future unless present inequalities of both race and class are challenged head on.\n\nAfrican Sun Media: South Africa","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583269216529,"sku":"GOR013544960","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52407610081553,"sku":"NLS9781847012890","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847012892.jpg?v=1751060479"},{"product_id":"whites-and-democracy-in-south-africa-book-roger-southall-9781847013743","title":"Whites and Democracy in South Africa","description":"Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752018714897,"sku":"NGR9781847013743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52530794725649,"sku":"NLS9781847013743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755275186449,"sku":"NIN9781847013743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847013740.jpg?v=1750866509"},{"product_id":"new-scramble-for-africa-book-roger-southall-9781869141714","title":"A New Scramble for Africa?","description":"Raises significant general questions relating to the nature of global competition between the US and China; the centrality of the struggle for oil and minerals and resulting militarisation; the international battle to capture Africa's markets; and, the marginalisation of African capitalism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50029899677969,"sku":"GOR013841401","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51533039141137,"sku":"GOR014319015","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53024374030609,"sku":"GOR014702408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1869141717.jpg?v=1754261128"},{"product_id":"opposition-and-democracy-in-south-africa-book-roger-southall-9780714681733","title":"Opposition and Democracy in South Africa","description":"This collection examines the nature, scope and prospects for political opposition under African National Congress political dominance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52134325944593,"sku":"NLS9780714681733","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780714681733.jpg?v=1757541246"},{"product_id":"new-black-middle-class-in-south-africa-book-roger-southall-9781847011435","title":"The New Black Middle Class in South Africa","description":"Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's \"black middle class\".\n\n2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title\n\n  The \"rise of the black middle class\" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of \"black diamonds\", consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt \"tenderpreneurs\" who use their political connections to obtain contracts. This book seeks to complicate that picture with a much-needed analysis that recounts its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994, before examining the size, shape andstructure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South.\n\n  Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.\n\nSouthern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Jacana","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52472279826705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52472280318225,"sku":"NLS9781847011435","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781847011435.jpg?v=1759837936"},{"product_id":"new-black-middle-class-in-south-africa-book-roger-southall-9781847012456","title":"The New Black Middle Class in South Africa","description":"Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's black middle class.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52530674172177,"sku":"NLS9781847012456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53223843922193,"sku":"NIN9781847012456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781847012456.jpg?v=1760653483"},{"product_id":"liberation-movements-in-power-book-roger-southall-9781847011343","title":"Liberation Movements in Power","description":"The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. 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