This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.

An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating intr

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in Sout

"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs

This study uses a close reading of a series of major commission reports into the "Native Question" to examine the formation and reproduction of state power in S