262pp., paperback, Gqeberha, 2023

Contributions include:

"Beyond Democracy's Travails Towards Just Inclusion: Re-membering the demos" by Christi van der Westhuizen, Siphiwe Dube and Zwelethu Jolobe

"Struggles for the People-centred Soul of South Africa's Legislatures" by Samantha Waterhouse

"Deepening Democracy in Rural Spaces in South Africa: Labour-tenant land claims and social justice" by Richard Levin and Mnqobi Ngubane

Queering Democracy: LGBTQI+ struggles in Africa - a conversation bridging scholarship and activism" by Melanie Judge, Peace Kiguwa, Monica Tabengwa and Liberty Matthyse

"The (Un)making of Democracy as a Struggle for Inkululeko: Rethinking corruption on the margins" by Hlengiwe Ndlovu

"Black Conservatism in South Africa?" by Siphiwe Dube.

Christi van der Westhuizen is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher who heads the research programme at the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy, Nelson Mandela University. She is the author of White Power and the Rise and Fall of the National Party and Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaner women in post-apartheid South Africa and co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness. Working Democracy: Perspectives on South Africa's Parliament at 20 Years, a collection of her media columns, was published in 2014.

Siphiwe Dube is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Zwelethu Jolobe is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town and the author of Brokering Power in Intractable Conflicts: International mediation in the South African transition.

THE D-WORD, perspectives on democracy in tumultuous times

: van der Westhuizen (C.), Dube (S.) & Jolobe (Z.) eds.

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