Suchergebnisse

Part 1: The evolution of ANC leadership: lessons from history / Z Pallo Jordan -- The political context of the (ongoing) transition / Febe Potgieter-Gqubule -- Contradictions in South Africa's political economy / Ben Turok -- Marxism and the economy / Ben Turok -- Lessons from the Reconstruction and Development Programme / Jeremy Cronin -- Globalisation: the economic context of the transition / Rob Davies -- Class power in South Africa / Jeremy Cronin -- The real economy and the impact of the state and the private sector / Ben Turok -- Stalled in orthodoxy? / Anthony Black -- The dual economy and spatial inequalities in South Africa / Ivan Turok -- Part 2: How laws are made / Ben Turok -- For the good of the whole: on the doctrine of the separation of powers / R Cassius Lubisi, Bongani Ngqulunga and Khulekani Mathe -- Driving change: the National Development Plan Vision 2030 / Trevor Manuel -- The Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP), New Growth Path (NGP) and the National Development Plan (NDP) / Ben Turok -- The National Development Plan and the public service / Richard Levin -- Black economic empowerment / Ben Turok -- South Africa's Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP 2) / Rob Davies -- The role of mining in industrialisation / Ben Turok -- The role of black SMMEs in South Africa / Philisiwe Buthelezi -- The curse of Berlin: lessons from Africa / Adekeye Adebajo -- Regulating the communications sector / Felleng Sekha -- The mandate of the Chief State Law Adviser in relation to Parliament and Cabinet / Enver Daniels

The ANC has a long history of radical politics and action as a liberation movement against white domination. Its achievements in transforming the political order are unique in the world. But the imperatives of achieving and maintaining state power in unfavourable circumstances imposed major constraints upon it and led to controversial policy shifts around growth-development choices, with unintended consequences. This book traces the economic debates in the ANC over a decade in government as it faced cruel decisions on the balance to be pursued between macro-economic stabilisation and attending to the colossal social deprivations of the mass of the people. It finds that financial stabilisation became the overriding objective, and the ANC government became frozen in a continuing pursuit of cautious and orthodox economic policies under the mantra of fiscal prudence. The government became trapped in a mindset of growth as the route to development and lost the will to explore economic alternatives. The bulk of the members of the ANC sensed that stasis had taken over, hence the 2007 National Conference of the ANC at Polokwane saw the ousting of a substantial segment of the national leadership from office. This book argues that a major reason for this rejection was the failure to pursue the economic transformation promised in the Freedom Charter and the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The Conference indicated clearly that a large proportion of the ANC still aspires to the kind of sharing of the economy envisaged during the struggle against apartheid

Africa's new spirit of democracy will retain its impact in the long term

The term 'parastatal' is used rather loosely in Zambia, being often applied to a wide range of bodies such as boards, corporations, and companies that operate in the state-dominated sector of the economy. It is unfortunate that there has not been greater consistency in official usage, but these organisations have grown up over the years in different forms to meet felt needs and not according to a preconceived plan. The vagaries in terminology also reflect a degree of uncertainty in government policy on how the public sector should be ordered, as well as a piecemeal approach in its interventions in the economy since independence. However, in recent years the nomenclature has received greater attention out of a recognition that the parastatals loom rather large in the economy, often being more prominent than government departments and more visible than the private sector.