Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Rights
Abstract
This article is a critique of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. It explores the assumptions employed by the African National Congress and the international community to construct a post-apartheid society. It argues that the reliance on the law as the key medium for economic, social, and political change was insufficient to transform the legacy of apartheid. Instead, the piece contends that apartheid was privatized and its beneficiaries protected under the new dispensation. It makes the argument that the lot of the black majority is unlikely to be changed such gradualist approach to social change.
Publication Title
Harvard Human Rights Journal
First Page
63
Last Page
114
Recommended Citation
Makau w. Mutua,
Hope and Despair for a New South Africa: The Limits of Rights Discourse,
10
Harv. Hum. Rts. J.
63
(1997).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/574