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                         TRANSFORMATION
                  critical perspectives on Southern Africa
                                     ISSN 0258-7696
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Keith Breckenridge, John Daniel, Bill Freund, Adam Habib, Gerhard Mare, Monique
 Marks, Imraan Valodia (University of Natal), Lindy Stiebel (University of Durban-
Westville).
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Mike Morris, Vishnu Padayachee (University of Natal), Debbie Posel (University of
the Witwatersrand), David Kaplan, Dave Lewis, Mary Simons (University of Cape
Town).
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of California), Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), Martin Murray (SUNY
Binghamton), Dan O'Meara (University de Quebec a Montreal), Terence Ranger
(University ofZimbabwe), John Saul (York University), Elling N Tjanneland (Christian
Michelsen Institute, Norway), Gavin Williams (University of Oxford).
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Critical perspectives on Southern Africa
                                 CONTENTS
Editorial
Debating 'race' in South African scholarship                                 i
         Deborah Posel, Jonathan Hyslop and Noor Nieftagodien
Keynote Addresses
The Age of Love                                                             I
         Franfoise Verges
Liberating race from Apartheid                                              18
        Xolela Mangcu
After the great white error... the great black mirage                       28
        Paul Gilroy
Articles
What's in a name? Racial categorisations under apartheid and their          50
afterlife
        Deborah Posel examines the continuingpractice ofracial reasoning
         across all racial groups in post-apartheid South Africa and its
         implications for racialisation and deracialisation in South Africa
         today.
Race counts in contemporary South Africa: 'an illusion of                   75
ordinariness'
         Gerhard Mari examines the continuing capitulation to race
        thinking in South Africa and the manner by which it is conveyed,
         created, and maintained and the control it is given.


Defining people: analysing power, language and representation in          94
metaphors of the new South Africa
        Phumla Gqola examines the different discourses of the new
        South Africa and the different ways by which South Africans use
        them to construct and reinforce their ideas about the new nation.
Panel Discussion
Neville Alexander, Jane Barrett, Devan Pillay and Raymond                 107
Suttner discuss how the issues of race and non-racialisation were
tackled in the anti-apartheid era and how they impacted on the
effort to craft non-racial organisations and struggles.