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Postcolonial Struggles for a Democratic Southern Africa

National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfi lled dreams. This book explores the ongoing struggle for legitimate, accountable political leaders in postcolonial Southern Africa, focusing on dilemmas arising when ex-liberation movements form governments. While the spread of multi-party democracy to most countries in the region is to be celebrated, democratic practice often has been superfi cial a limited, elitist politics that relies on the symbols of the liberation struggle to legitimate de facto one-party rule and authoritarian practices. Using country cases from South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the collection explores three subthemes relevant to postcolonial governance in Southern Africa: how the struggle for liberation shapes the character of political transformation, the nature of rule in one-party dominant states headed by former liberation movements, and the processes of governance and resistance in post-liberation contexts.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Carolyn Bassett is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. She has published in Canadian Journal of African Studies, Third World Quarterly and Review of African Political Economy.

Marlea Clarke is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada, and a Research Associate with Labour and Enterprise Research Project (LEP), University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has published in Law, Democracy and Development, Canadian Journal of African Studies and Work, Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, and co-authored Working Without Commitments.

Postcolonial Struggles for a Democratic Southern Africa

Legacies of liberation

Edited by
Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke

First published 2016
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Contents

Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke

Teresa Debly

David Moore

Leander Schneider

Roger Southall

Linda Freeman

Grace-Edward Galabuzi

Richard Saunders

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction: Legacies of liberation: postcolonial struggles for a democratic southern Africa

Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 281283

Culture and resistance in Swaziland

Teresa Debly

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 284301

The Zimbabwean Peoples Army moment in Zimbabwean history, 19751977: Mugabes rise and democracys demise

David Moore

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 302318

Liberating development? Rule and liberation in post-independence Tanzania

Leander Schneider

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 319330

From liberation movement to party machine? The ANC in South Africa

Roger Southall

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 331348

A parallel universe competing interpretations of Zimbabwes crisis

Linda Freeman

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 349366

Land resistance in Zambia: a case study of the Luana Farmers Cooperative

Grace-Edward Galabuzi

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 367377

Geologies of power: blood diamonds, security politics and Zimbabwes troubled transition

Richard Saunders

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (July 2014) pp. 378394

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Carolyn Bassett is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. She researches and teaches in the areas of political economy of development, globalisation and the political role of labour and organised social movements with a research focus on South Africa. Her current research is on the production of knowledge for policy engagement in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and she is completing a study of popular budgeting in South Africa.

Marlea Clarke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada, and is a Research Associate with the Labour and Enterprise Research Project (LEP) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work has focused on labour market restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa and the political role of labour and organised social movements in shaping the countrys political and economic transformation.

Teresa Debly is a qualified high school teacher who taught English and Geography at Hluti Central High School, Swaziland, from 1987 to 1989. Since 2005, she has been actively involved with Swaziland Solidarity Network Canada. Her research interests include Swazi history, politics and culture, which culminated in her Masters thesis on the intersection of these three topics. She currently teaches music and continues to research protest music in Swaziland, prior to pursuing doctoral studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Linda Freeman is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She specialises in African political economy, with a particular interest in southern Africa. Her study,

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