LEADER 02828nam 2200493 450 001 9910819420503321 005 20230808204502.0 010 $a1-928357-14-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000009513053 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6321131 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009513053 100 $a20201208d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSouth Africa and the case for renegotiating the peace. /$fPierre du Toit, Charl Swart, Salome? Teuteberg 210 1$aStellenbosch, South Africa :$cSun Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (158 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-928357-13-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aSouth Africa is awash with policy failures, and policy confusion. We argue firstly, that our current discord over policy details has its origin in the (celebrated) negotiated transition. We hold that the vote count of an 85% majority in the Constituent Assembly in 1996 obscured the reality that the Constitution meant different things to different negotiators. The result was that South Africa, from the very start of the democratic era, lacked a national consensus on how to go about consolidating democracy. We keep on failing to build a proper roof over our democracy because the constitutional foundations are weak. In this book, we present a way out for South Africa from its persistent policy failures and policy confusion. We argue that in order to do so the major stakeholders in South Africa will have to jointly renegotiate the meaning of the Constitution. It is not a call for a new CODESA. CODESA was a conference to establish a new democracy. This is a call for a process to salvage that very democracy, where stakeholders will have to clarify what the pillars of the 1996 Constitution are: what does it stand for, what does it represent, what does it embody, and what kind of future does it authorise South Africans to try to construct. 606 $aDemocracy$zSouth Africa 606 $aGovernment accountability$zSouth Africa 606 $aNation-building$zSouth Africa 606 $aPost-apartheid era$zSouth Africa 607 $aSouth Africa$xPolitics and government$y21st century 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aGovernment accountability 615 0$aNation-building 615 0$aPost-apartheid era 676 $a321.80968 700 $aDu Toit$b P. van der P$g(Pierre),$01601148 702 $aTeuteberg$b Salome? 702 $aSwart$b Charl 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819420503321 996 $aSouth Africa and the case for renegotiating the peace$93924614 997 $aUNINA