THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE TRANSFORMED? Sanctions, negotiations and elite pacts 1975-2018

360pp., paperback, UCT Press, Cape Town, 2024

ISBN: 9781991236036

Louis Picard, Thomas Mogale and Caitlin Corrigan on the nature of the 1994 political transition in South Africa, its impact post-apartheid, and the failures of liberalism within the context of the transitional process that led to the institution, if not the practice, of a non-racial state.

Louis Picard has served as Associate and Full Professor of public Policy and African Development at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, since 1987. He has authored or edited 12 books on African politics and the politic of foreign aid.

Thomas Mogale is a retired Associate Professor and former Executive Dean of the College of Ecoomic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa. 

Caitlin Corrigan is Executive Director of the Institute of Ethics in AI at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and consults with companies and NGOs through her organisation, the Research Group for Sustainable Impacts.