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This article focuses on the complex ways in which artistic innovation and creativity have been fostered by the experience of living in late apartheid and post-apartheid society. It argues that contemporary South African artists, film-makers and performers have developed highly inventive formal and conceptual vocabularies in their effort to negotiate the ever-changing landscape of contradictory and sometimes irreconcilable realities they encounter on a daily basis, often attaining major international acclaim in the process. Blurring the boundaries between long-established artistic genres, and challenging racial, sexual and other stereotypes, they have refused to abandon the hope of achieving the ideals of a renewal and respacialization of the current socio-cultural landscape. Many of them have done so against the odds of vociferous opprobrium from state officials and legal challenges by the ANC, which in recent years has questioned the right to freedom of expression of a number of artists.

Introduction: The New South Africa at twenty: Some Brechtian whipsers / Peter Vale . - 1 The ANC Youth League and the politicisation of race / Deborah Posel . - 2 The political economy of pervasive rent-seeking / Raphael de Kadt and Charles Simkins . - 3 South African Marxisms, past and present / Kirk Helliker and Peter Vale. - 4 Living out our differences: Reflections on Mandela, Marx and my country - an interview with Jakes Gerwel / John Higgins . - 5 Neo-liberal restructuring and the fate of South Africa's labor unions: A case study / Mondli Hlatshwayo . - 6 The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking / Gerhard Mare . - 7 Conjunctural remarks on the political significance of 'the Local' / Richard Pithouse . - 8 Part 1: Prolegomenon to education in crisis / Salim Vally . - 8 Part 2: Education in crisis / Neville Alexander . - 9 Uneasy relations: Women, gender equality and tradition / Cherryl Walker . - 10 Art and culture in contemporary South Africa: The present future / Sandra Klopper

The essays in this volume constitute a selection from papers given at The University of the Witwatersrand's African Studies Institute Seminar during 1986 and the first half of 1987 which are focusing on culture and concepts surrounding culture. (DÜI-Eng)