Essays on the Evolution of the Post-Apartheid State - Legacies, reforms and Prospects (Paperback)

The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), which was publicly launched as a think tank in March 2011, was founded to create a platform for engagement around strategic issues facing South Africa. It combines research and academic development, strategic reflections and intellectual discourse, and applies itself to issues such as economics, sociology, governance, history, arts and culture, and the logics of natural sciences. Essays on the evolution of the post-apartheid state: Legacies, reforms and prospects is a collection of essays by independent scholars and reports. This publication is intended to generate strategic reflection beyond issues to do with the day-to-day chores of governance. The views across the essays may not be entirely consistent; and the issues they raise may be contentious. This merely affirms the truism that the State is a contested terrain. The aim is to deepen the search for an understanding of the theory of the state as it applies to a transforming society such as ours, and to trudge the dividing line between theory and practice so they can feed into each other in a progressive spiral towards the desired 'end-state'.