02406cam a2200325 i 4500 0000029949 20230921135240.0 140508s2012 xxa 000 0 eng d 2014398561 9780864867421 : US$40-00 OI@ eng rda OI@ STF OI@ OCLCF UKMGB OCLCA DLC DT1971.5 .V55 2012 320.968 23 Villa-Vicencio, Charles. Conversations in transition : leading South African voices / Charles Villa-Vicencio and Mills Soko. Cape Town, South Africa : David Philip, 2012. 301 p : ill ; 24 cm. "The conversations in this book are with a cross-section of South Africans from very different backgrounds, whose journeys in life have taken them in different directions. They are influential people located in different layers of South African life, most of whom hearteningly acknowledge the need to understand the mental and emotional spaces of other South Africans. The common ground between them, expressed through a mixture of styles, dreams and desires, as well as fears and uncertainties, is an expectation that the country has the potential to do better. These are strong voices. At times they are strident and at times they border on the utopian. In most cases their views are infused with political realism. This, encouragingly, suggests that there are significant South Africans in most spheres of society who are more ready to undertake a national self-reckoning exercise than the heat of public debate sometimes suggests. This work is therefore not just a collection of interviews with eminent leaders, but a forceful profile of our democracy in its second decade. It is, among other things, also a truthful look at our faults and follies, accomplishments and achievements." -- Publisher's note. Interviews South Africa. Politicians South Africa Interviews. Civic leaders South Africa Interviews. Labor union members South Africa Interviews. Businesspeople South Africa Interviews. Judges South Africa Interviews. Religious leaders South Africa Interviews. Democracy South Africa. Soko, Mills. 20230822095114.0 7292 7292 0 0 0 0 cutlib cutlib 2023-09-21 0 DT 1971.5 VIL BK0049688 2023-09-21 00:00:00 c.040949 2023-09-21 BK