Tony Binns, Alan Lester (St Mary's University College), Nel Etienne (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, S.A.)

• 1. Introduction; Economic and Social Boundaries; Space and Power; The State; Transformations; Organisation of the Book 2.  Setting the Scene; South Africa's Location; Environment and Natural Resources; Climate; "Human Resources"; Mineral Resources and Mining; Economic Performance; Tourism 3.  Pre-Industrial South Africa 1652-1900; Precolonial Society; The Creation of Colonial Categories; The Transition of Liberalism; British Settlers, Capitalist Expansion and Segregation; The Mineral Revolution 4.  Industrialising South Africa 1900-1948; Reconstruction, Union and the Reformulating of Racial Boundaries; Segregation and Modernity in the 1920's and1930's; The Successes and Failures of Segregation c. 1920 - 48 5.  Apartheid South Africa 1948-1994; Apartheid and the Fixing of Racial Boundaries; Reformulating Apartheid - Globalisation, Colonisation and the Apartheid Boom; The Official Substitution of Class for Race 1970's-1980's; The Opening of Citizenship 6.  Inequality and "Development" in South Africa: A Snapshot of; The Limitations of Political Transition; Race and Class; Gender; Space; Service Provision; Employment and the Economy; The Way Forward? 7.  Post-Apartheid "Development" - Redistribution With Growth?; Reconciliation and Compromise After 1994; The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), 1994-96; The Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy - A Shift of Economic Orthodoxy; The Economy and Job Creation; Addressing Inequalities;The African Renaissance; Post-Apartheid Politics; Race and Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa; The Post-Apartheid Government Record; South Africa's Post-Apartheid Difficulties. 8.  Beyond the Limpopo - South Africa in Africa in the Wider World; Africa - Decline and Rebirth?; South Africa - Economic Powerhouse of Africa; Perceptions of South Africa in Africa; Relationships with the International Community; South Africa and the Southern Africa Region; South Africn Capital and the Wider Region; South Africa and Africa - What Future Within the Global Political Economy? 9.  South Africa's Current Transition in Temporal and Spatial Context; The Argument; The Transition to Liberal Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery on the Early Nineteenth Century; The Transition to Industrial Capitalism and Segregation in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Late Capitalism and the Abolition of Apartheid in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries. Glossary Bibliography Index

Tony Binns, Alan Lester (St Mary's University College), Nel Etienne (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, S.A.)

• 1. Introduction; Economic and Social Boundaries; Space and Power; The State; Transformations; Organisation of the Book 2.  Setting the Scene; South Africa's Location; Environment and Natural Resources; Climate; "Human Resources"; Mineral Resources and Mining; Economic Performance; Tourism 3.  Pre-Industrial South Africa 1652-1900; Precolonial Society; The Creation of Colonial Categories; The Transition of Liberalism; British Settlers, Capitalist Expansion and Segregation; The Mineral Revolution 4.  Industrialising South Africa 1900-1948; Reconstruction, Union and the Reformulating of Racial Boundaries; Segregation and Modernity in the 1920's and1930's; The Successes and Failures of Segregation c. 1920 - 48 5.  Apartheid South Africa 1948-1994; Apartheid and the Fixing of Racial Boundaries; Reformulating Apartheid - Globalisation, Colonisation and the Apartheid Boom; The Official Substitution of Class for Race 1970's-1980's; The Opening of Citizenship 6.  Inequality and "Development" in South Africa: A Snapshot of; The Limitations of Political Transition; Race and Class; Gender; Space; Service Provision; Employment and the Economy; The Way Forward? 7.  Post-Apartheid "Development" - Redistribution With Growth?; Reconciliation and Compromise After 1994; The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), 1994-96; The Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy - A Shift of Economic Orthodoxy; The Economy and Job Creation; Addressing Inequalities;The African Renaissance; Post-Apartheid Politics; Race and Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa; The Post-Apartheid Government Record; South Africa's Post-Apartheid Difficulties. 8.  Beyond the Limpopo - South Africa in Africa in the Wider World; Africa - Decline and Rebirth?; South Africa - Economic Powerhouse of Africa; Perceptions of South Africa in Africa; Relationships with the International Community; South Africa and the Southern Africa Region; South Africn Capital and the Wider Region; South Africa and Africa - What Future Within the Global Political Economy? 9.  South Africa's Current Transition in Temporal and Spatial Context; The Argument; The Transition to Liberal Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery on the Early Nineteenth Century; The Transition to Industrial Capitalism and Segregation in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Late Capitalism and the Abolition of Apartheid in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries. Glossary Bibliography Index