Part one. Beginnings. 1. The evolution of my consciousness -- 2. Joining the ANC underground -- 3. Angola and beyond -- 4. 1985: COSATU is born and the empire strikes back -- 5. Lusaka. Part two. Evolution of the new dispensation. 6. CODESA and its discontents -- 7. The Constitution: founding pact of the new republic -- 8. GEAR: salvaging a bankrupt state or selling out the soul of a new republic? -- 9. Participatory democracy: the people shall govern -- 10. Polokwane: those that the Gods sought to destroy they first made mad -- 11. State capture: a silent coup against the Constitutional dispensation -- 12. Economic desperation and hopelessness: the July 2021 revolt -- 13. Woudeness: the Truth Commission and its omissions -- 14. Corruption: stealing from the poor. Part three. The rebirth. 15. Leveraging our spiritual resources -- 16. Music to the rescue -- 17. Educating for the future -- 18. Political and economic reform: the call for a new CODESA.
Summary:
"With prose like Jazz - thrilling, mysterious, playful - former exile, business leader and political commentator Oyama Mabandla excavates the values that created a steady flow of pioneering South Africans under impossible conditions. These values bolstered a liberation ethic and championed a leadership that made individual nobility and excellence aspirational. Can these values, in retreat since 1994, be recaptured and set South Africa on its best trajectory?" -- Provided by publisher.
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