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Book reviews Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa M~WANELE MAYEKISO New York, Monthly Review Press, 1996, 288pp., 18b/w photographs, bibliography Mzwanele ('MZ') Mayekiso's book will provide an important reference work on the extraordinary period of mobilisation against apartheid - and the inevitable state response - in the 1980s, and on the difficulties facing the 'civic" movement in South African townships in the 1990s. The book is significant not least because its publication is an almost unique event - the international appearance of a book written by a person who played a central role in civic organisation in a black community during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s and into the more developmentally orientated 1990s. Mayekiso's intensely personal account brings to bear the passion of young civic activists which previous outsider authors generally have not captured. It provides food for thought in all the key areas of debate on the future of the townships - which for this review, I take to indude crime, violence, poverty, unemployment, poor services, housing shortages, and community involvement in decision-making. It also provides a source for further analyses of relationships between political organising, political power, and the 'delivery' of material http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Springer SBM
Subject
Social Sciences, general; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology
ISSN
1015-3802
eISSN
1874-6330
DOI
10.1007/BF03036774
Publisher site
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Abstract

Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa M~WANELE MAYEKISO New York, Monthly Review Press, 1996, 288pp., 18b/w photographs, bibliography Mzwanele ('MZ') Mayekiso's book will provide an important reference work on the extraordinary period of mobilisation against apartheid - and the inevitable state response - in the 1980s, and on the difficulties facing the 'civic" movement in South African townships in the 1990s. The book is significant not least because its publication is an almost unique event - the international appearance of a book written by a person who played a central role in civic organisation in a black community during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s and into the more developmentally orientated 1990s. Mayekiso's intensely personal account brings to bear the passion of young civic activists which previous outsider authors generally have not captured. It provides food for thought in all the key areas of debate on the future of the townships - which for this review, I take to indude crime, violence, poverty, unemployment, poor services, housing shortages, and community involvement in decision-making. It also provides a source for further analyses of relationships between political organising, political power, and the 'delivery' of material

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