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Intro -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Towards a Better Development Agenda for the Global-South -- Chapter 2: Thought Leadership for Africa's Development and a Just World -- Chapter 3: Africa's Integration -- Chapter 4: Africa's Economic and Social Development -- Chapter 5: Development in Africa -- Chapter 6: Towards a Better Socio-Economic Development Approach in Africa -- Chapter 7: African Continental Free Trade Agreement and Africa's Future -- Chapter 8: Role of Memory in Transformation -- Chapter 9: The National Question in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 10: Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 11: Post-apartheid South Africa's Developmental State Journey -- Chapter 12: Post-apartheid South Africa's Political Landscape -- Chapter 13: Revisiting the Land Question in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 14: Inequalities in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 15: Higher Education in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Postscript -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface - From Bandung (1955) to the Great Recession. Old and new challenges for the States, the Nations and the Peoples of Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- A WORLD WITHOUT BANDUNG AND NAM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Chapter 1 - Introduction. Towards Inclusive Development in Africa -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- PART I -- Chapter 2 - Genealogies of Coloniality and Implications for Africa's Development -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GENESIS OF COLONIALITY -- HISTORICISING THE GENEALOGIES AND LINEAGES OF COLONIALITY -- THE POST-1648 WESTPHALIAN ORDER AND THE EXCLUSION OF AFRICA FROM NATION-STATE SOVEREIGNTY -- THE BERLIN CONSENSUS OF 1884/1885, THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA AND CONQUEST -- COLONIAL GOVERNMENTALITY AND REPRODUCTION OF AFRICAN SUBJECTIVITY -- THE POST-1945 UNITED NATIONS DECOLONISATION NORMATIVE ORDER AND COLD WAR COLONIALITY -- POST-COLD WAR TRIUMPHALISM OF NEOLIBERAL ORDER -- THE POST-9/11 ANTI-TERRORIST AND SECURITISATION ORDER -- COLONIALITY OF MARKETS AND THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 - Africa and Global Recessions. Options for reducing vulnerability in future -- INTRODUCTION -- AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS: IMPACT AND RESPONSES -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CAUSES OF GLOBAL RECESSIONS AND REMEDIAL MEASURES TO ADOPT -- CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 - No African Futures without the Liberation of Women. A decolonial feminist perspective -- INTRODUCTION -- GENDER AND PATRIARCHY -- GLOBAL POWER STRUCTURES AND GENDER -- RETHINKING GENDER -- THE CASES OF SOUTH AFRICA AND RWANDA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development Dilemmas -- Chapter 3: The Post-apartheid Development Experience -- Chapter 4: Evolution of Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 5: Nation Building -- Chapter 6: Social and Economic Transformation -- Chapter 7: Towards an Inclusive Society -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Praise for the Book -- Index.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- PART I - BACKGROUND -- 1. Introduction -- Background -- Transition from Apartheid to Democracy -- Concepts and Ideas -- Scope of the Book -- 2. Brief Political History of South Africa -- Introduction -- African Communities -- Political and Economic Systems -- Conclusion -- PART II - POLICIES AND PROSPECTS -- 3. Policy and Law-making -- Introduction -- Public Policy Reforms -- Public Policy Making Approaches -- Public Policy Cycle -- Policy Coordination and Monitoring and Evaluation -- Conclusion -- Key Terms -- 4. Economic Development -- Introduction -- Economic Transformation -- Economic Performance -- Calculating GDP -- Calculating Economic Growth Rate -- Unemployment -- Calculating Unemployment -- Economic Development Since 1994 -- Economic Development Initiatives -- Other Policies, Strategies and Initiatives -- Economic Performance in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Employment -- Conclusion -- Key Terms -- 5. Economic Empowerment -- Introduction -- Economic Empowerment -- Arguments against BEE -- Financing Economic Empowerment -- Promoting Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprises -- Institutional Framework -- Conclusion -- Key Terms -- 6. Industrial Development -- Introduction -- Brief History of Industrialisation -- Industrial Development -- Industrial Structure of South Africa -- Industrial Regulation and Policies -- Other Industrial Development Initiatives -- Post-apartheid South Africa's Industrial Development -- Conclusion -- Key Terms -- 7. Public Enterprises -- Introduction -- Historical Context -- Size Complexity of Public Enterprises -- Brief Profiles of Selected Public Enterprises -- Internal and External Challenges -- Performance of Selected Commercial Public Enterprises -- Conclusion -- Key Terms

The book, made up of three parts, covers a wide spectrum of political economy issues on post-apartheid South Africa. Although the text is mainly descriptive, to explain various areas of the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa, the first and the last parts provide illuminating insights on the kind of society that is emerging during the twenty-one years of democracy in the country. The book discusses important aspects of the political history of apartheid South Africa and the evolution of post-apartheid society, including an important recap of the history of southern Africa before colonialism. The text is a comprehensive description of numerous political economy phenomena since South Africa gained its political independence and covers some important themes that have not been discussed in detail in other publications on post-apartheid South Africa. The book also updates earlier work of the author on policy and law making, land and agriculture, education and training as well as on poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa thereby providing a wide-ranging overview of the socio-economic development approaches followed by the successive post-apartheid administrations. Interestingly, three chapters focus on various aspects of the post-apartheid South African economy: economic policies, economic empowerment and industrial development. Through the lens of the notion of democratic developmental state and taking apartheid colonialism as a point of departure, the book suggests that, so far, post-apartheid South Africa has mixed socio-economic progress. The author's extensive experience in the South African government ensures that the book has policy relevance while it is also theoretically sound. The text is useful for anyone who wants to understand the totality of the policies and legislation as well as the political economy interventions pursued since 1994 by the South African Government.

From a policy perspective, the question naturally arises as to whether there have been major changes in policy making and associated issues in South Africa since 1994. Arguably, the first five years or so focused on institutional reforms and legislative interventions. In the late 1990s the South African government established specific processes and institutions for policy development and coordination. In 2005-6, specific processes and institutions for long-term planning and monitoring and evaluation were formally established. The paper examines the evolution of policy making and coordination in South Africa since the late 1990s, it also reflects on monitoring and evaluation as well as long-term planning. The erstwhile Policy Coordination and Advisory Services (PCAS), which had been the main engine of policy (coordination and other aspects) in post-apartheid South Africa that was established towards the end of 1997 in the Office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki (at the time) was disbanded in 2010. The PCAS, popularly known as the Policy Unit, coordinated all policies and reforms, and led in planning as well as monitoring and evaluation, among other responsibilities. From 2010, functions were institutionalised or strengthened (e.g. government departments have been established to deal with planning as well as monitoring and evaluation). There have not been major shifts and/or changes in policy coordination, planning as well as monitoring and evaluation since the late 1990s. However, there appears to be a shift in emphasis to focusing more on implementation. This might have been one of the biggest mistakes of the Jacob Zuma administration because capacity for policy thinking is critical. It would seem that the Thabo Mbeki administration focused specifically on policy. The Nelson Mandela administration, which was a Government of National Unity, was largely focused on various policy, legislative and institutional reforms with very limited capacity for policy making, coordination and monitoring and evaluation as well as long-term planning.

The African continent remains at the periphery in world affairs, as many have argued. Similarly, many scholars have advanced cogent reasons for this unfortunate reality. The development of the continent is also unimpressive, relative to the potential of the African economies. It is therefore important that Africa pursues its own socioeconomic development approach instead of what appears to be inappropriate policies that are being implemented in most if not all African countries, as argued elsewhere. This article makes a case for African (traditional/indigenous) leadership and examines political leadership in particular with the view of ensuring that Africa reclaims its lost glory and recovers its stolen legacy (to paraphrase George James). The article argues that African leadership should be infused with thought leadership, thought liberation, and critical consciousness. And critical consciousness and thought liberation should be linked to decolonizing the minds of Africans, as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and others have argued.

This book is an outcome of the third conference in the successful "Scramble for Africa" International Conference series, now renamed the "African Unity for Renaissance" International Conference. The book provides an overview and contains profound analyses of the important issues pertaining to African Unity and African Renaissance. The book is accessible to a wide variety of readers, ranging from policy makers to researchers, from teachers to students, and for anyone concerned with the further development of the African continent and Africa's renewal. The book outlines the various issues that a