Constituting the Nation, Beyond the Constitution: A South African Future?, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 31/10/2017

This SOAS Centenary Lecture titled 'Constituting the Nation, Beyond the Constitution: A South African Future?' was given by Professor Njabulo Ndebele at University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus, Alice, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa on 29 March 2017. The event was chaired by Professor Mashood Baderin.
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/hPfQt7

The South African Constitution has been hailed as a model document in state formation and consolidation. Yet, if its rational stature seems solid, the diverse human experience across the land that has to respond to it with a collective sense of social coherence and legitimacy may be imagined but seems critically unformed. What would it take to create such experiential coherence and legitimacy?