Beyond the Miracle Inside the New South Africa

Name: Beyond the Miracle Inside the New South Africa
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ISBN: 9780226768595

ISBN-10: 0226768597

ISBN-13: 9780226768595

Edition: 2009

Authors: Allister Sparks

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Beyond the Miracle offers a comprehensive and moving account of the years in South Africa since the 1994 election of a democratic government—a defining moment in twentieth-century political life. Written by Allister Sparks, one of South Africa’s most distinguished living journalists, Beyond the Miracle covers both the proud achievements and disappointing failures of the administrations and then looks to the future, asking whether this nation can overcome its history and current global trends to create a truly nonracial, multicultural, and multiparty democracy.nbsp; Sparks unflinchingly examines the obstacles that the new, democratic South Africa faces: an increasingly wide gap between rich…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.37" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Foreword Prologue - The World in Microcosm



The Covenant



A Three-in-One Revolution



Out of the Bush



Portraits of Change



The Essential Freedom



A Prague Spring



Stroking the Tiger



Of Crimes and Confessions



The Great U-turn



For Richer, For Poorer



A Bitter Inheritance



Deaths and Births



When Saints Go Marching Out



An African Holocaust



A Bad Neighbourhood



The Foot of the Rainbow Chronology


Notes


Index