John Kane-Berman

Between Two Fires (eBook, ePUB)

Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken place in his lifetime in this fractious country. In his career as student leader, Rhodes Scholar, newspaperman, independent columnist, commentator, and Chief Executive, for thirty years, of the South Africa Institute of Race Relations, Kane-Berman has been at the coal face of political change in South Africa.

The breadth and depth of ideas and events covered in Between Two Fires are striking: the disintegration of apartheid, the chaos of the 'people's war' and its contribution to the broader societal breakdown we see today, the liberal slideaway, the rise of an authoritarian ANC with its racial ideology and revolutionary goals, to mention only a few. It is a book of fizzing ideas.

Kane-Berman's willingness to confront received wisdom is thoroughly refreshing, and he is forthright about the threats to freedom, democracy, and growth in contemporary South Africa, many of which he identified even before the ANC came to power. He is equally forthright in putting forward liberal ideas to halt the country's downward slide. Writing, debate, and reasoned argument are Kane-Berman's stock in trade, and his clarity of vision and personal insight have created a memoir of rare candour and absorbing interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jonathan Ball
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781868427703
• Artikelnr.: 47789633

Autorenporträt

JOHN KANE-BERMAN was educated at St John's College in Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he read philosophy, politics, and economics. After practising as a journalist on the Financial Mail, he joined the South African Institute of Race Relations and was Chief Executive of the Institute for 31 years.Kane-Berman has written four books on South Africa and continues to contribute articles on South Africa to books, journals, and newspapers. During his long career he has delivered 680 lectures about South African affairs, also both here and abroad. He continues as a policy fellow at the South African Institute of Race Relations.