Wilma Dunaway and Donald Clelland’s article, “Moving toward theory for the 21 Century: The centrality of nonwestern hemispheres to world ethnic/ racial inequality,” is structured around a contradiction between the interrogation of global apartheid theory’s political correctness and reverse racism and the scathing, yet hyperbolic, critique of the semiperipheries as the most egregious site for th...

The South African post-apartheid constitution provides for community participation in the construction, implementation and evaluation of integrated development planning at local level. This article reviews and assesses community participation in practice drawing on the findings of a range of research projects conducted in Cape Town since 1994. It is argued that contemporary understanding of com...

Synopsis — The paper focuses on the origins and impact of the ‘‘gay rights clause’’ in the post-apartheid constitution of South Africa. The clause, explicitly prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, was the first of its kind in the world. It represents a paradox given the commitment of the post-apartheid state to mass participation in policy formulation and high levels of...

Community family planning programmes in South Africa arose from the controversial apartheid history of controlling the African population while encouraging the growth of European migrant population. Post-apartheid population policies shifted away from population control to aligning policies to the global agenda that placed emphasis on the link between population and development. The focus on po...

This article examines public lectures of Beyers Naudé from 1966 until his banning in 1977, tracing on the one hand critique apartheid shortly before engagement with black consciousness, and then reception consciousness. Working a 1967 lecture mostly ignored literature to present, Freedom South Africa, onwards, illustrates how equates particular normative understanding Western emancipatory thoug...

Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...