Summary

In this extensively updated and expanded edition of South Africa: Limits to Change, Hein Marais analyses why the ANC government has adopted, and firmly pursued, conservative economic policies, despite their poor performance. In doing so he draws on and develops the rich structural and political understandings of radical South African intellectuals.In a penetrating assessment of the balance of forces, Marais examines the many, and often overlooked, ingredients of the ANC government's power, as well as the frailties and unexploited strengths of the country's popular movement. His book provides a benchmark critical analysis of South Africa's journey beyond apartheid.