PROMISES AND PERIL, the South African crisis, foreword by Ebrahim Rasool

214pp., paperback, African Perspectives Publishing, Johannesburg, (2025) 

ISBN: 9781037095313

Imraan Buccus weaves together personal experience with a critical analysis of South Africa’s ongoing political crisis. He examines how the promise of liberation gave way to corruption, inequality and repression, and calls for a recovery of the moral clarity of the liberation struggle and a politics that serves the many rather than the few.

“The book details the rise of the two different competing futures for South Africa: emboldened fascism or grassroots democracy organised around resilient social movements. This is the best contemporary read of South Africa and its politics.” Adam Habib

A fascinating and frank exploration of South Africa’s political crisis and the delicate hope that still survives within it.” Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Political sociologist and public intellectual Imraan Buccus is Associate Professor in International Relations at the US-based School for International Training; Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Johannesburg; Senior Research Associate at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute, and Editor of Al Qalam.