<DIV>Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S Saul reexamines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.<br/><br/>In A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking South African Liberation, Saul examines the grim reality of southern Africa's contemporary post-'liberation' plight, drawing on the insights of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.<br/><br/>Saul examines the ongoing 'rebellion of the poor', including the recent Marikana massacre, that have begun to undermine the ANC's inherited hegemony and signal the possibility of a new and more hopeful future.<br/></p></div>