Richard Calland is Associate Professor in Public Law and Head of the Democratic Governance & Rights Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Chapter 1: MBEKI AND HIS LEGACY: A critical introduction
DARYL GLASER
Chapter 2 MBEKI'S LEGACY: Some conceptual markers
PETER HUDSON
Chapter 3 WHY IS THABO MBEKI A 'NITEMARE'?
MARK GEVISSER
Chapter 4 MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE CONSTITUTION: Mbeki and the law
RICHARD CALLAND AND CHRIS OXTOBY
Chapter 5 THABO MBEKI AND DISSENT 105
JANE DUNCAN
Chapter 6 CIVIL SOCIETY AND UNCIVIL GOVERNMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008
MARK HEYWOOD
Chapter 7 SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US: Racism, technique and the Mbeki administration
STEVEN FRIEDMAN
Chapter 8 TOWARDS A COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY: Did Thabo Mbeki help or hinder?
EUSEBIUS MCKAISER
Chapter 9 THABO MBEKI'S LEGACY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY
CHRIS LANDSBERG
Chapter 10 THABO MBEKI AND THE GREAT FOREIGN POLICY RIDDLE
PETER VALE

For nearly ten years - indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela's presidency - Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa's political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa's new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki's legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki's role in shaping it.