TY - BOOK AU - Butler,Anthony TI - Contemporary South Africa SN - 0333715187 (hardback) AV - DT1975 .B87 2004 U1 - 968.066 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - South Africa KW - Politics and government KW - 1994- KW - Economic conditions KW - 1991- KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Historical context -- A rainbow nation -- The South African economy -- Social structure and social policy -- Government -- Political life -- Culture, ideas, and issues -- South Africa and the world -- South Africa in the twenty-first century N2 - "An introduction to the emerging patterns of economic, social and political life in South Africa today set in the context of the dramatic transition from apartheid state to majority rule and of South Africa's emerging role both in sub-Saharan Africa and on a wider global stage."--Publisher description ER -