A “Negotiated Revolution”? Trade Unions and Companies in South Africa in the 1980s
A “Negotiated Revolution”? Trade Unions and Companies in South Africa in the 1980s
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“谈判革命”?
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10.1163/9789004440395_012
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2021
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通讯作者:
Knud Andresen
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Knud Andresen
Overcoming the racist and globally outlawed apartheid system in South Africa is often linked to the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 and the subsequent four-year transition phase that ended with the first free elections in April 1994. The occurrence at the same time as the collapse of the socialist countries suggests that the transition from apartheid to a democratic society was a result of the end of the Cold War between East and West. This is not completely wrong, as South Africa was a hotspot in the Cold War: the apartheid regime was a strategic outpost of the West, despite all the criticism of racial discrimination made by Western states. The largest liberation organization, the African National Congress (anc), had a socialist approach and received logistical and ideological support from the Soviet Union and socialist countries. Because the South African Communist Party (sacp) was represented in the governing bodies of the anc, the apartheid regime’s anti-communist propaganda received support. 1 Nevertheless, the transition process was not a direct reaction to the disintegration of the socialist state world, but instead to a longer process of change in South Africa itself; a process that began in the early 1980s and had a great deal to do with new strategic orientations of the South African parties in conflict, especially the anc and white elite circles. South Africa’s political transition is considered a “negotiated revolution”, 2 and in the context of the current volume, this chapter examines the influence of industrial relations on strategic reorientations. The term “revolution” for the South African transition involves systematic contradiction. Yet the political system changed fundamentally, so some1 sacp cadres played an important role in the beginning of the armed struggle in 1961, and some authors still try to answer the question of whether or not Nelson Mandela was a member of the party. Cf. Stephen Ellis,“The Genesis of the ANC’s armed struggle in South Africa 1948–1961”, Journal of Southern African Studies 37 (2011): 657–676.
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