Development dilemmas in post-apartheid South Africa

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Author:

Freund, Bill.

ISBN:

9781869141899

Publication Information:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2010.

Physical Description:

xi, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Development dilemmas in post-apartheid South Africa: an introduction / Bill Freund ; Macroeconomic policy and development: from crisis to crisis / Stephen Gelb -- Part 1. The minerals-energy complex and its woes: a problematic growth path. Environmental injustice through the lens of the Vaal Triangle: whose dilemma? / David Hallowes ; Development dilemmas of mega-project electricity and water consumption / Patrick Bond and Molefi Mafereka ka Ndlovu ; Darkness and light: assessing the South African energy crisis / David Fig -- Part 2. The state as the agent of change: conflicts over implementation. Planning and land-use conflicts amidst the search for urban integration: the case of Wingfield / Edgar Pieterse ; Unintended consequences: development interventions and socio-political change in rural South Africa / Mary Galvin ; Social citizenship and the emergence of the new social movements in post-apartheid South Africa / Buntu Siwisa -- Part 3. Struggles over resources and the land. 'Doing business with a development ethic': 'new look' land redistribution in South Africa / Deborah James ; Development by decree: the impact of minimum wage legislation on a farming area in North West Province / Astrid Boehm and Stefan Schirmer ; Land claims, land conservation and the public interest in protected areas / Cherryl Walker ; Agrarian interventions: corporate biogenetics on the Makhathini Flats / Harald Witt -- Part 4. Household interventions: gender issues. Social justice, care and developmental welfare in South Africa: a capabilities perspective / Shireen Hassim ; Decentralising gender rights and entitlements through integrated development planning / Alison Todes, Amanda Williamson and Pearl Sithole ; Rights and redistribution: thinking about the state, gender and class in South Africa after the 2006 Zuma rape trial / Mark Hunter.

Abstract:

What is really meant by 'development' in twenty-first-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this title address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas: from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability and environmental justice to grassroots social movements, problems of policy implementation, land and agricultural reform and gender inequality. Written by leading academics and activists, this is an essential and illuminating in-depth study of the dilemmas facing post-apartheid South Africa, and the historical, political, economic and social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there is no easy way to attain development; it is a process, not an event, and is fraught with failures and loss, as well as gains."--P. [4] of cover.

Subject Term:

Economic development.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

South Africa -- Economic policy.

South Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Added Author:

Freund, Bill.

Witt, Harald.

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What is really meant by 'development' in 21st-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this book address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas - from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability, and environmental justice, to grassroots social movements, problems of policy implementation, land and agricultural reform, and gender inequality. Written by leading academics and activists, this book is an essential and illuminating in-depth study of the dilemmas facing post-apartheid South Africa, and the historical, political, economic, and social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there is no easy way to attain development - it is a process, not an event, and is fraught with failures and loss, as well as gains.