The Subversion of South Africa

By Ricardo Maarman

The Subversion of South Africa

R300.00

The Subversion of South Africa by Ricardo Maarman is perhaps the most stinging rebuke of the ANC government since it took office in 1994. Maarman provides an encyclopedic treatise of South Africa's past and current reality.

It comes at a time when rampant crime, unemployment, corruption, degrading poverty, and economic stagnation have become common descriptors of the country. This is a far cry from Nelson Mandela's "ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities." If anything, South Africa has entrenched its position of being a POSTER child of global inequality.

While others have attributed the ANC government's catastrophic mishandling of South Africa to sheer incompetence and corruption, Maarman goes much further. For him, the pattern of failure is nothing short of subversion. His book provides a chilling account of how the politicians, judges, mainstream media and so-called civil society have all been corralled by foreign and domestic capital to undermine the South African state.

Given the current administration's seeming intent to reverse any gains made since 1994, his account rings depressingly true.

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