dc.contributor.author | Kunene, Phindile | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-08T12:11:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-08T12:11:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kunene, P. 2013. The Crisis Committee, post apartheid protest and political mobilisation in Phomolong Township, Free State. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 67:97-118, Nov. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9877 | |
dc.description.abstract | Often depicted in images of violence, burning tyres, destruction of
property and looting of private businesses, service delivery protests have
captured the imagination of many scholars interested in South Africa’s post
apartheid politics. There are two main approaches to the study of service
delivery protests. On the one hand are studies that argue that service delivery
protests directly spring from an economic reality that privileges the market
as a provider of services. The strength of this analysis is that it draws an
important link between neoliberal capitulation and the rise of protest and
mobilisation in post apartheid South Africa. The limitation in this analysis
is that it pays scant attention to local associational politics. On the other
hand is an approach that locates its analysis in the institutional design of post
apartheid local government. Although offering a competent analysis of the
grievances in service delivery protests, this analysis lacks a historical approach
in studying local protest. Furthermore, this approach seldom illuminates the
social composition and organisational character of the movements at the
centre of these protests. Based on extensive life history interviews, this study
examines the 2005 service delivery protests in Phomolong - a township in
the northern Free State. With a grounded analysis on the Crisis Committee,
which was the coordinating centre of the protests, the study reveals interesting
complexities about the articulation between service delivery protests and the
historical evolution of political mobilization and protest in Phomolong. In
the paper it is argued that, despite some promising aspects and potential
to effect thoroughgoing transformation on the local state, post apartheid
protest movements present a hybrid and fluid political character, which can
be understood by looking at the interface between the internal dynamics of
protest movements and the structural factors that influence their formation. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | Phomolong | en_US |
dc.subject | Crisis Committee | en_US |
dc.subject | Political mobilisation | en_US |
dc.subject | Postapartheid protests | en_US |
dc.subject | Service delivery | en_US |
dc.subject | Collective consumption | en_US |
dc.subject | African National Congress | en_US |
dc.subject | Free State | en_US |
dc.title | The Crisis Committee, post apartheid protest and political mobilisation in Phomolong Township, Free State. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |