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New South African Review 2 New paths, old compromises? 2, New paths, old compromises?
Title
New South African Review 2 [electronic resource] : New paths, old compromises? 2, New paths, old compromises? / edited by John Daniel, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall.
ISBN
9781868145584
9781868145416
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (1 PDF (398 pages) :) : illustrations
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Summary
The second volume of the New South African Review (NSAR) continues a tradition of debate and critical, analytical scholarship about contemporary South Africa. Drawing on authors from academia and beyond, it aims to be informative, discursive and provocative. In this volume, the New Growth Path (NGP) adopted by the South African government in 2010 provides the basis for a debate about whether "decent work" is the best possible solution to South Africa's problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. Rising inequality is explored against the backdrop of the failings of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). The NGP's proposals for "greening the economy" are discussed, with emphasis on the creation of "green jobs" and biofuels. The volume also includes investigations into the crisis of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand, and other persistent environmental challenges. Possibilities for participatory forms of government are surveyed, and civil society activism is explored in relation to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and environmental campaigns. The crisis in child care in public hospitals, the difficulties that characterize attempts at building relationships between the police and a township community, and the problems related to the absence of legislation to govern the powers of traditional authorities over land allocation (through the experience of the Eastern Cape) are also featured. Asking whether the NGP 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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive African Studies Supplement V.
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VI.
Project MUSE - Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement VI.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Zuma presidency : the politics of paralysis? / John Daniel and Roger Southall
The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents : contesting the 'National Democratic Revolution' in the Zuma era / Devan Pillay
The African National Congress and the Zanufication debate / James Hamill and John Hoffman
Dancing like a monkey : the Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South Africa / Neil Southern and Roger Southall
Democracy and accountability : Quo Vadis South Africa? / Paul Hoffman
Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa : gaps and opportunities / Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks
Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgia / Leslie Bank and Clifford Mabhena
South Africa and 'Southern Africa' : what relationship in 2011? / Chris Saunders
Continuing crises, contradictions and contestation / Prishani Naidoo
'The wages are low but they are better than nothing' : the dilemma of decent work and job creation in South Africa / Edward Webster
The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitals / Haroon Saloojee
The worker cooperative alternative in South Africa / Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams
Policing in the streets of South African townships / Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho
BEE Reform : the case for an institutional perspective / Don Lindsay
Bokfontein amazes the nations : Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised community / Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt
Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisation / Devan Pillay
Above and beyond South Africa's minerals-energy complex / Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond
Corrosion and externalities : the socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand / David Fig
Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003-2010 / William Attwell
Media transformation and the right to know / Devan Pillay
The print media transformation dilemma / Jane Duncan
The South African Broadcasting Corporation : the creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new one / Kate Skinner.
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