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Tracings: Pan Africanism and the Challenges of Global African Unity

Spoornet in particular has been curtailed by mounting challenges these entities are faced with back home. As such most of these parastatals have had to unceremoniously withdraw from most deals without much to show for it (see chapter 18). Despite its usefulness the book is saddled by a number of limitations. Space allows us to specify only one. The New South African Review it will help to mention is a progeny of a much older South African Review. The latter series was a key text in the 1980s within South African studies. In keeping with the dominant view within South African social scientific thinking at the time the old South African Review denied the coloniality of apartheid South Africa. Simply it denied that apartheid South Africa was a colonial society comparable to other African colonies. To do this it analysed apartheid using highly abstract categories, e.g., racial capitalism. Second, in writing apartheid it excluded from the record the lived experiences of the black colonised. Unfortunately, one searches in vain within the entire New South African Review 1–4 series for an effort to update its conceptual categories in order that South Africa’s post-apartheid democratic moment may be read together with, in light of, and/or against that of other post-colonial African societies. To formulate the critique into a question one would ask what is it that hinders colonial and postcolonial South African history and politics from being or becoming comparable with that of other African states? The short answer is South African exceptionalism promoted by such works as the New South African Review 4.