David Everatt
Author
Publisher
Wits University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
The constitution of post-apartheid South Africa declares the republic to be "a sovereign, democratic state" founded on "human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms; nonracialism and nonsexism." After centuries of white domination and decades of increasingly savage repression, freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere in the continent-and yet was marked by a commitment to nonracialism. Nelson...