Beschreibung:
Asking whether the New Growth Plan reflects a set of new policies or an attempt to re-dress old (com)promises in new clothes, this volume brings together different voices in debate about possibilities for alternatives to neo-liberal and capitalist development in South Africa.
An explanation of the New Growth Plan and alternatives to neo-liberal and capitalist development in South Africa
In this second volume of the New South African Review, the New Growth Path adopted by the South African government in 2010 provides the basis for a dialogue about whether 'decent work' is the best solution to South Africa's problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. There are investigations into rising inequality against the backdrop of the failings of Black Economic Empowerment; 'greening the economy', with emphasis on biofuels; the crisis of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand; possibilities for participatory forms of government; civil society activism; transformation of the print media and the SABC; the crisis in child care in public hospitals; the relationship between the police and a township community; the problems related to the absence of legislation to govern the powers of traditional authorities over land allocation; and assessments of the state of opposition political parties and the ANC Alliance. Asking whether the New Growth Plan reflects a set of new policies or an attempt to re-dress old (com)promises in new clothes, this volume brings together different voices in debate about possibilities for alternatives to neo-liberal and capitalist development in South Africa.
INTRODUCTION: The Zuma presidency: The politics of paralysis?John Daniel and Roger SouthallCHAPTER 1: The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents: Contesting the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma eraDevan PillayCHAPTER 2: The African National Congress and the Zanufication debateJames Hamill and John HoffmanCHAPTER 3: Dancing like a monkey: The Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South AfricaNeil Southern and Roger SouthallCHAPTER 4: Democracy and accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa?Paul HoffmanCHAPTER 5: Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa: Gaps and opportunitiesImraan Buccus and Janine HicksCHAPTER 6: Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgiaLeslie Bank and Clifford MabhenaCHAPTER 7: South Africa and ‘Southern Africa’: What relationship in 2011?Chris SaundersINTRODUCTION TO PART 2: Continuing crises, contradictions and contestationPrishani NaidooCHAPTER 8: ‘The wages are low but they are better than nothing’: The dilemma of decent work and job creation in South AfricaEdward WebsterCHAPTER 9: The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitalsHaroon SaloojeeCHAPTER 10: The worker cooperative alternative in South AfricaVishwas Satgar and Michelle WilliamsCHAPTER 11: Policing in the streets of South African townshipsKnowledge Rajohane MatshedishoCHAPTER 12: BEE Reform: The case for an institutional perspectiveDon LindsayCHAPTER 13: Bokfontein amazes the nations: Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised communityMalose Langa and Karl von HoldtINTRODUCTION TO PART 3: Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisationDevan PillayCHAPTER 14: Above and beyond South Africa’s minerals-energy complexKhadija Sharife and Patrick BondCHAPTER 15: Corrosion and externalities: The socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the WitwatersrandDavid FigCHAPTER 16: Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010William AttwellINTRODUCTION TO PART 4: Media transformation and the right to knowDevan PillayCHAPTER 17: The print media transformation dilemmaJane DuncanCHAPTER 18: The South African Broadcasting Corporation: The creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new oneKate Skinner
