Ethnic Continuities and a State of Exception

<p>This book alerts readers to the dangers of tradition as a formal structured politics which enriches a narrowly elite minority while overriding democratic rights effecting a ‘state of exception’ for the governance of millions who are rendered as ‘subjects’ in South Africa. Gerhard Maré sets his focus on three powerful men – Goodwill Zwelithini Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Jacob Zuma – to illustrate how from different social locations each has relied on claims to Zulu tradition to occupy powerful and financially rewarding positions.</p><p>Print edition not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa. </p>