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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 Africas 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.

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NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 2
NEW PATHS, OLD COMPROMISES?
EDITED BY JOHN DANIEL, PRISHANI NAIDOO, DEVAN PILLAY AND ROGER SOUTHALL
Published in South Africa by Wits University Press 1 Jan Smuts Avenue - photo 1
Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg
www.witspress.wits.ac.za
Published edition Wits University Press 2011
Compilation Edition editors 2011
Chapters Individual contributors 2011
First published 2011
ISBN 978-1-86814-541-6 (print)
ISBN 978-1-86814-793-9 (digital)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act, Act 98 of 1978.
Cover image: Nikki Rixon / Africa Media Online
Project managed by Monica Seeber
Cover design and layout by Hothouse South Africa
Printed and bound by Ultra Litho (Pty) Ltd.
Contents
v
INTRODUCTION
New paths, old (com)promises?
INTRODUCTION
The Zuma presidency: The politics of paralysis?
CHAPTER 1
The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents: Contesting the National Democratic Revolution in the Zuma era
CHAPTER 2
The African National Congress and the Zanufication debate
CHAPTER 3
Dancing like a monkey: The Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South Africa
CHAPTER 4
Democracy and accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa?
CHAPTER 5
Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa: Gaps and opportunities
CHAPTER 6
Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgia
CHAPTER 7
South Africa and Southern Africa: What relationship in 2011?
INTRODUCTION
Continuing crises, contradictions and contestation
CHAPTER 8
The wages are low but they are better than nothing: The dilemma of decent work and job creation in South Africa
CHAPTER 9
The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitals
CHAPTER 10
The worker cooperative alternative in South Africa
CHAPTER 11
Policing in the streets of South African townships
CHAPTER 12
BEE Reform: The case for an institutional perspective
CHAPTER 13
Bokfontein amazes the nations: Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised community
INTRODUCTION
Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisation
CHAPTER 14
Above and beyond South Africas minerals-energy complex
CHAPTER 15
Corrosion and externalities: The socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand
CHAPTER 16
Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010
INTRODUCTION
Media transformation and the right to know
CHAPTER 17
The print media transformation dilemma
CHAPTER 18
The South African Broadcasting Corporation: The creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new one
Preface
This second volume of the New South African Review is composed of original chapters dealing with contemporary issues in South African politics, economy and society. The new series, drawing upon the tradition of critical scholarship established by its predecessor South African Review of the 1980s and 1990s, seeks to present diverse views and perspectives across a range of concerns vital to our country. The present edition brings together contributions from authors from an array of universities and civil society organisations, and while there is much that is complementary between them, there is no intention that the New South African Review should assume a particular intellectual line: rather, the idea is to promote intellectual debate and diversity.
The New South African Review is housed in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, where three of the editors earn our keep. We should like to thank our colleagues in the Department for their constant encouragement in this project, as well as administrators Ingrid Chunilall and Laura Bloem for their constant willingness to take on the various mundane tasks connected with it. We should also like to acknowledge the vital financial assistance offered by the Universitys SPARC Funds for special projects, and the support given to our application for that assistance by the Dean of Humanities, Professor Tawana Kupe. In addition, we note the enthusiastic backing and wise publishing advice extended by Veronica Klipp, director of Wits University Press, and the valuable contribution made by Monica Seeber, who served as the technical editor and, finally, we are indebted to all those anonymous referees who dispensed Olympian judgements upon the various chapters in draft form.
John Daniel (School of International Training, Durban), Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall (all Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand).
Introduction
New paths, old (com)promises?
Prishani Naidoo
THE PROMISE OF LIBERATION
Of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)s stated aspiration to fundamental transformation (African National Congress (ANC), 1994), an essay by the late Harold Wolpe (1995) noted that the ways in which the document eradicated sources of contradiction and conflict by asserting a consensual model of society (Hart, 2007) meant that the very notion of fundamental transformation threatened to become a source of contestation. Seventeen years on, not only has this prediction turned out to be remarkably accurate, but politics in South Africa today seems ever more sharply polarised over the content of the promise of liberation (Veriava, 2011).
As the ANC government has attempted to perfect and link its growth and development strategies, increasingly entrenching its neoliberal approach (from the RDP to the Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy (Gear) to the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (Asgisa) and now the New Growth Path (NGP)), it has attempted to define the promise and the possibilities for its realisation according to the rationalities and limitations of this model. In so doing, it has come up against community and social movements that have put forward different understandings of the promise and asserted that many of the ANCs claims to realising the promise have been compromises, aimed at ensuring the reproduction of the fragile coalition between business, labour and government that has determined the nature of the transition (Ballard et al., 2006; Gibson, 2006; McKinley and Naidoo, 2004).
While in the pre-2006 period the leadership of the ANC Alliance was at pains to silence any hint of criticism of its policies from within its ranks, by 2007 and the showdown at Polokwane, differences and conflicts between members and factions of the alliance were being played out in the media, allowing it to re-present itself as a contested space in which debate and critique are cultivated, permitting change to happen from within the alliance, a throwback to its critics who had, on the basis of the experiences of the late 1990s and early 2000s,1 declared the ANC Alliance to be a space in which dissent and disagreement is silenced and contained.2 With the triumph of the Zuma-camp over the Mbeki-camp at the ANCs national congress in Polokwane, the stage was set for supporters of the alliance to argue that possibilities had opened up in this moment for more left-leaning agendas to gain voice. In this volume, Devan Pillay offers a close analysis of relations within the alliance, pre- and post-Polokwane, posing a number of questions for the future of the alliance and for left politics more generally, which will be taken up later in this introduction.
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