This work provides an illuminating and comprehensive critique of post-apartheid society in South Africa, through the lenses of indigenous Black Consciousness philosophy, and discussing issues of class, gender, religio-culture, and Pan Africanism.

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Julian Kunnie

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Is Apartheid Really Dead? provides an illuminating and comprehensive critique of post-apartheid society in South Africa, through the lenses of indigenous Black Consciousness philosophy, and discussing issues of class, gender, religio-culture, and Pan Africanism.

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• Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Comprehensive History of the South African Struggle The Indigenous African Struggle Against Colonialism and Black Working-Class Resistance to Industrial Capitalism Summary and Conclusion 2. Why Apartheid Changed Its Character in 1990 Capitalism Promotes Post-Apartheid Black Resistance: Pressure for Post-Apartheid Rhetoric Post-Apartheid: The Politics and Economics of Survival for the White Capitalist Class Negotiations and Post-Apartheid: A Black-Consciousness Critique, Summary and Conclusion 3. Neocolonial Political Economy in South Africa Neocolonialist Capitalism and the Black Elite Class Black Working-Class Responses to the Post-Apartheid Economy The "Free Market" Economy: South African Style Land, Housing, and Economic Dependency Summary and Conclusion 4. A Pan-Africanist/Black Working-Class Critical Perspective on "Independent" African Political Economies South Africa and "Independent Africa" Some Neocolonial Political Economies in "Independent Africa," Summary and Conclusion 5. Pan-Africanism and the Struggle Against Colonialism and Neocolonialism Historical Pan-Africanist Struggle and South Africa: The Pan-African Congress in Manchester, 1945 The Obstacle to Pan-African Working-Class Unity: Neocolonialism Revolutionary Pan-Africanism: A Radical Response to Black Oppression The Role of Revolutionary Ideology Black Revolution and the Environment Revolutionary Transformation and Indigenous African Spirituality Language Policy and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa Summary and Conclusion 6. Black Union Praxis and Worker Culture: Revolutionary Prospects and Limitations Revolutionary Limitations and Possibilities of the Black Working Class Creative Cultural Productions and Resistance Future Revolutionary Transformation in Azania and Africa: The Primacy of Women's Struggles The Creative Resourcefulness of Indigenous Black Working-Class Women in Revolutionary Struggle Summary and Conclusion Epilogue * Index