John Reynolds - The Development Planning in South Africa: Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape

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Editorial board

Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa); Morten Boas (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs); David Booth (Overseas Development Institute); Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin); Neil Carrier (University of Bristol); Fantu Cheru (Leiden University); Kevin Dunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Amanda Hammar (University of Copenhagen); Alcinda Honwana (Open University); Paul Jackson (University of Birmingham); Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick); Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College); Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjld Foundation); Garth A. Myers (Trinity College Hartford Connecticut); Lonce Ndikumana (UMass Amherst); Cyril Obi (Social Science Research Council); Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town); Mareike Schomerus (Overseas Development Institute); Laura Seay (Morehouse College); Howard Stein (University of Michigan); Mats Utas (Uppsala University); Alex de Waal (Tufts University)

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About the author

John Reynolds is the founding head of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit in the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. He has accumulated over twenty years of applied research and policy experience, including in areas such as provincial growth and development planning, local economic development, sector and enterprise development, human resource development planning, institutional/organisational development, health systems, water resource management, water services, land reform, livelihoods, communications management, social impact assessments, and public participation facilitation. He has worked in the Eastern Cape since 2000, focusing increasingly closely on social and economic development research and facilitation, policy support, and critical reflection on the limits of policy challenge in the South African state. His work in the Eastern Cape has included substantive work on the Eastern Cape Provincial Growth and Development Plan 20042014 (on contract to the United Nations Development Programme) and the establishment and implementation of the Thina Sinako Provincial Local Economic Development Support Programme (financed by the European Union in partnership with the Eastern Cape Provincial Government). He has authored numerous research and policy reports, and is the editor of the forthcoming book Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State .

Development Planning in South Africa

Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape

John Reynolds

Development Planning in South Africa: Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape was first published in 2018 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK

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Figures

Institutional arrangements for the PGDP process

PGDP Project Management Unit

Process timeline

Tables

Development of strategic objectives and targets in the PGDP Strategy Framework

Priority programme interventions identified during the Programme Prioritisation Workshop of 25 July 2003

Revised timeframe for the completion of the programme development process

I was encouraged to undertake the research on which this book is based by Fred Hendricks, who also supervised development of my doctoral thesis. I am grateful for the professional and helpful way in which access to the Hansard of the Eastern Cape Legislature was facilitated by Andr Erasmus, Director of Hansard and House Business in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. My thanks also go to the staff of the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council, the Eastern Cape Non-Governmental Coalition, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the Border-Kei Chamber of Business and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber for their helpful responses to my enquiries, and to Ms Ruth Longridge for proofreading and for editorial suggestions.

A scholarship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation allowed me to dedicate some time to full-time research, enabling me to immerse myself in theory and my data.

Finally, my love and thanks go to Catriona, Liam and Aidan for their forbearance and support.