Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Econ...

Shadow of LiberationContestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996\nAuthor(s): Vishnu Padayachee, Robert Van Niekerk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wits University Press, South Africa\nImprint: Wits University Press\nISBN-13: 9781776143955, 978-1776143955\nSynopsis\nShadow of Liberation explores the intricate twists, turns, contestations and compromises of ANC economic and social policymaking with a focus on the transition era of the 1990's and the early years of democracy\n With the damning revelations by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on the massive corruption of the South African body politic, the timing of this book could not be more relevant. South Africans need to confront the economic and social policy choices that the liberation movement made and to see how these decisions may have facilitated the conditions for corruption to emerge and flourish. Answers are needed. Padayachee and van Niekerk focus.