Unresolved National Question in South Africa

Edward Webster is Distinguished Research Professor in the Southern Centre for Inequality and founder of the Society, Work and Development Institute Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

• Introduction Revisiting the National Question; Edward Webster and John Mawbey; Part One: Key Foundational Traditions; 1. Decentring the Question of Race: Critical Refl ections on Colonialism of a Special Type Jeremy Cronin and Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo; 2. The African National Congress: Social Democratic Thinking and the Good Society, 1940-1962 Robert van Niekerk; 3. Oliver Tambo and the National Question Luli Callinicos; 4. The Unity Movement and the National Question B.G. Brown, M.P. Giyose, H.J. Peterson, C.A. Thomas and A.R. Zinn; 5. The Africanist Turn in South African Discourses Siphamandla Zondi; Part Two: Continuity and Rupture; 6. Vicissitudes of the National Question, Afrikaner Style T. Dunbar Moodie; 7. Neville Alexander and the National Questio Enver Motala and Salim Vally; 8. The National Question confronts the Ethnic Question Gerhard Mare; 9. Black Consciousness as Nationalism of a Special Type Xolela Mangcu; 10. Postponing the National Question: Feminism and the Women's Movement Shireen Hassim; 11. Workerists Alec Erwin; 12. Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, Workerism, Syndicalism and the Nation Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich and Lucien van der Walt; 13. The Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress Martin Legassick; 14. The National Democratic Revolution meets Constitutional Democracy: The Conceptual Complexities of an Unanticipated Encounter Daryl Glaser

"The Unresolved National Question in South Africa is an extremely valuable contribution to the decades-long debate on South African nationhood. Its striking feature is its highly professional and balanced approach to the various narratives and traditions