Flawed Freedom

Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S. Saul examines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.

With chapters on South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique, Saul examines the reality of southern Africa''s post-''liberation'' plight, drawing on the insights of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral and assessing claims that a new ''precariat'' has emerged.

Saul examines the ongoing ''rebellion of the poor'', including the recent Marikana massacre, that have shaken the region and may signal the possibility of a new and more hopeful future.