South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy

Introduction -- Modernity : civil society, political society and the vulnerable -- The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy -- The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy -- The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism -- Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony -- Elites, masses and democratic change -- Crisis of the national modern : democracy, the state and ANC dominance -- Conclusion.