Beyond In The Twilight of the Revolution: A Response to My Reviewers

Abstract

The debate about the outcome of the negotiated settlement that ended South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle rages on. The author of this article, who is also on the side of the debate that argues that South Africa’s Black majority was short-changed by the outcome, affirms that argument here, and insists that negotiated settlement amounts to ‘surrendered revolution’ that allowed White South Africans to retain monopoly of the economy. He enjoins ‘progressive forces’ in South Africa to remobilize and finish the ‘unfinished revolution’ that will achieve a different outcome, which will right the historic economic wrong that consigned and keeps South Africa’s Black majority in crushing poverty.