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South Africa was in crisis, as early as 1976 and the Soweto riots, and certainly since 1984 and the student riots and financial impasse. It abated at the time of the constitutional agreements of November 1993 and subsequent national elections in April 1994. That crisis was at once interclass, interethnic, interregional and state-market, and every system of political-economy was affected.
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Steven Friedman, The Long Journey: South Africa’s Quest for a Negotiated Settlement, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1993. There were also several contemporary newspaper accounts and interpretations of the CODESA negotiations. Together, these were part of a larger historical debate about the end of Apartheid in South Africa. See Norman Etherington, “Is it too Soon to Start Devising Historical Explanations for the End of Apartheid?” in Paul B. Rich (ed.), The Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa, London: Macmillan, 1994.
Corder acknowledged the influence of E. P. Thompson upon his own analytical approach. Corder’s approach is also reminiscent of the Relativist understanding of the role of international law in political change. Hugh Corder, “Towards a South African Constitution,” The Modern Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 4, July 1994. On Relativist understandings, see for example, Richard Falk “The Relevance of Political Context to the Nature and Functioning of International Law: An Intermediate View,” in Karl Deutsch and Stanley Hof fmann (eds.), The Relevance of International Law, Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing, 1968.
Allister Sparks, Tomorrow is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Negotiated Revolution, Sandton: Struik books, 1994.
See T. H. Gwala, “Negotiations, as Presented by Joe Slovo” (organizational document, no place or date given); Jeremy Cronin, “Dreaming of the Final Showdown: A Reply to Pallo Jordan and Blade Nzimande,” SACP, November 1992; Sam Shilowa, “Negotiations—What Room for Compromise?: A Response by Sam Shilowa,” COSATU to ANC Negotiations Commission sent November 23, 1992.
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Allen, M.H. (2006). Revolution at a Bargain?. In: Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983077_6
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