New South African Review 1

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Anthony Butler. New South African Review 1

Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION. South Africa 2010: From short-term success to long-term decline?

THE FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S SHORT-TERM SUCCESS

THE CONTRADICTIONS OF INTERNATIONALISATION

The internationalisation and financialisation of South African capital

Reinforcing the minerals-energy complex

Employment, unemployment and inequality

BLACK EMPOWERMENT: Politically necessary, but economically costly?

FRAYING AT THE EDGES? The ANC’s declining control of society

Division within the ANC

The crisis in education

Protest at incapacity

SLIDE TOWARDS MEDIOCRITY?

PART 1. ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY. INTRODUCTION. South Africa and the eco-logic of the global capitalist crisis

THE GLOBAL POLY-CRISIS

ACCUMULATION, ‘AFFLUENZA’ AND THE RISE OF THE ‘AMERICUM’

GREEN CAPITALISM OR ECO-SOCIALISM?

SOUTH AFRICA’S RESPONSES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 1. The state of the South African economy

INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURAL WEAKNESSES AND CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING

FINANCIALISATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMIC CRISIS: Financialisation and deindustrialisation

IMPACT ON WORKERS

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 2. The international economic crisis and employment in South Africa

THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS ON EMPLOYMENT

THE CONTEXT: Extraordinarily low levels of employment

THE NATIONAL RESPONSE

THE CRISIS AND SOUTH AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

CHAPTER 3. The economic impact of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup: Ex ante ambitions and possible ex post realities

SPORT MEGA-EVENTS AND THEIR LEGACIES

Measuring event legacies

THE 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP: Projections, Preparations and Prospects

Macroeconomic projections

Infrastructural and urban costs, impacts and legacies

CONCLUDING REMARKS

CHAPTER 4. Growth, resource use and decoupling: Towards a ‘green new deal’ for South Africa?1

GLOBAL CONTEXT

LIMITS OF RESOURCE INTENSIVE GROWTH3

RESOURCE LIMITS. Climate change5

Oil resources6

Energy7

Water and Sanitation10

Solid Waste11

Soils14

Biodiversity15

POLICY RESPONSES

Macroeconomic policy versus section 24(b) of the constitution

National framework for sustainable development (NFSD)

Ad hoc policy shifts

Growing influence of sustainability thinking

DECOUPLING – OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 5. Planning for sustainable living with limited water

INTRODUCTION: Water as a ‘lead sector’ in planning for sustainability

Decoupling an improving quality of life from growing environmental impacts

Planning for development – its evolution from normative allocation to social process

The changing goals of water resource management: decoupling formalised as an objective

From infrastructure development to reconciliation and management: the planning framework

The limits to the market approaches in water management

WATER RESOURCE SECTOR PLANNING PROCESSES

National Water Resource Strategy

Catchment management strategies

Water service development plans

Other sectoral processes (agricultural and industrial development)

THE LINKAGES BETWEEN WATER AND BROADER STRATEGY AND PLANNING

Local government integrated development plans

Provincial government growth and development strategies

National spatial development perspective

National Planning Commission

International perspectives

WATER RESOURCE PLANNING IN PRACTICE: Some exhibits

Water for electricity

Price setting reflects relative scarcity

Limpopo changes its development strategy

The platinum rush and responses to supply constraints in the Olifants basin

Accommodation of competing demands on the Komati and Pongola/Maputo shared rivers

Gauteng and Vaal system: ‘Thieving farmers’ or optimal use?

How eThekwini put its World Cup at risk

Development opportunities forgone

CHALLENGES

Decentralisation

Social coherence and stakeholder engagement

Groundwater: The less visible commons

Less visible water uses

The dimension of quality

CONCLUSIONS

PART 2. STATE, POLITICS AND POLICY. INTRODUCTION. The politics and challenges of delivery

CHAPTER 6. The African National Congress under Jacob Zuma1

THE MBEKI LEGACY

THE RISE OF ZUMA

AFTER POLOKWANE

THE 2009 GENERAL ELECTION

ZUMA’S ANC IN GOVERNMENT

THE FUTURE OF THE ANC

THE FUTURE OF JACOB ZUMA

CHAPTER 7. Indigent management: A strategic response to the struggles of the poor in post-apartheid South Africa1

ENFORCING A ‘CULTURE OF PAYMENT’ – FROM MASAKHANE TO INDIGENT MANAGEMENT

KNOWING AND TARGETING ‘THE POOR’: The case of Johannesburg

STRUGGLES OF THE POOR – SURVIVAL OR LIFE?

CHAPTER 8. Fear, enervation and the systematisation of disorder: Challenges to reforming the Department of Home Affairs

IMMIGRATION SERVICES BRANCH IN CONTEXT

FEAR AND ENERVATION: Challenges to reform

Fear

Enervation

CONCLUSIONS: The systematisation of disorder

CHAPTER 9. The mobile nation: How migration continues to shape South Africa1

MOBILITY SHAPING THE NATION

VOLUMES AND PATTERNS OF MOBILITY

TRANSFORMING IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY

XENOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL COHESION9

NEW HORIZONS IN GOVERNING MOBILITY: Responses from local government

CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER 10. South African female peacekeepers: An exploration of their experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo

MEN ARE THE MILITARY; WOMEN ARE IN THE MILITARY1

GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN INTERNATIONAL PEACE MISSIONS

METHODOLOGY

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Gender mainstreaming in peace missions as a national obligation, and the question of a critical mass

GENDER EQUALITY WITHIN PEACE MISSIONS

WOMEN’S AFFINITY WITH – AND THEREFORE USEFULNESS TO – PEACE

Training, learning and awareness issues

CONCLUSION

PART 3. EDUCATION, HEALTH AND LAND. INTRODUCTION. Reform and redress in higher education, health and land

CHAPTER 11 ‘Silencing and worse ... ’: The humanities and social sciences in South Africa1

DEFINING THE HUMANITIES AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA

THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN PRACTICE

TOWARDS MARGINALISATION

IN SEARCH OF RECOVERY

CHAPTER 12. Realising transformation, equity and social justice in higher education

STUDENT TRANSFORMATION

Enrolments versus graduation

Race and gender: Undergraduate versus postgraduate students

Race versus gender equity

Disciplinary inequalities

Institutions

Key issues in student transformation

STAFF TRANSFORMATION

Academic staff transformation

General staff transformation

THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 13. The polarising impact of South Africa’s AIDS epidemic1

AN UNEQUAL EPIDEMIC

UNEVEN EFFECTS LAID ATOP AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY

LOCKED UP

HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED CARE: Passing the buck?

AN UNHEALTHY SYSTEM

FAILING THE TEST?

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

THE BOTTOM LINE

A POLARISED SOCIETY

HEADWAY

CHAPTER 14. Health for all? Towards a national health service in South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA IN THE 1940s: Community Oriented Primary Health Care and the National Health Services Commission

THE 1978 DECLARATION OF ALMA ATA

HEALTH CARE UNDER THE ANC: A road to crisis

THE NHI AND THE TEN POINT PLAN: Towards health for all?

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 15. The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP): A beacon of growth for rural South Africa?

THE COMPREHENSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

APPRAISING THE CRDP. Implementation mechanism – the institutional challenge

The CRDP and international experiences with rural development paradigms

The CRDP and the national context: Rural development experience in post-1994 South Africa

CRDP and the challenge of land and agrarian reform

Progressive bias in land reform beneficiary selection model

Land tenure in freehold farming areas and the CRDP

The Communal Land Act (CLARA) and the CRDP

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 16. Breaking down barriers: Policy gaps and new options in South African land reform

LAND REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA: From small beginnings to large-scale implementation

TREND 1: From equity to production – transcending the ‘hectare fetish’

TREND 2: Towards spatial dynamics in land reform

TREND 3: From land reform to rural development and ‘agrarian transformation’

THE MISSING LINK: The question of state capacity

GROWING CONTROVERSIES AROUND LAND REFORM

THE MULTIPLE DISCOURSES OF LAND REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA

MODERN GOVERNANCE: The role of policy networks and corporatist relations

NEW-GENERATION PARTNERSHIPS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

PART 4. CRIME AND SEX. INTRODUCTION. Introduction: Signs of social decline? Crime, prisons, child trafficking and transactional sex

CHAPTER 17. Our burden of pain: Murder and the major forms of violence in South Africa

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA. Violent deaths in South Africa2

Major forms of violence

Assaults linked to arguments, anger and domestic violence

Rape and sexual assault

Robbery and other violent property crime

Other forms of violence

The occurrence of violence in the lives of children

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 18. Waiting for Godot: Awaiting trial detainees in South Africa

THE CARCERAL ARCHIPELAGO

SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT OUR PRISONS AND WHAT IS HAPPENING INSIDE THEM?

AWAITING TRIAL DETAINEES (ATDs)

WHY SO MANY ATDs?

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (But who is to guard the guards themselves?)13

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE AN ATD?

SOLUTIONS?

WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF ATDs?

CHAPTER 19. Wolves in sheep’s skin: Trafficking of children in Musina, Limpopo Province

DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS

TRAFFICKING IN MUSINA

‘ANYTHING SOUNDS BETTER THAN THAT SIDE’

‘PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT RISK’

‘IN THE DISGUISE OF HELPING, THEY ABUSE THEM’

‘FEAR STOPS THEM FROM LEAVING’: Trafficking for sexual exploitation

‘BEING TREATED LIKE ANIMALS’: Trafficking for labour exploitation

‘THEY CAN PASS THROUGH EASIER’: Trafficking for the sale of illegal substances and criminal activity

‘PAYMENT ON ARRIVAL’: Trafficking and debt bondage

POLICY AND PRACTICE

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 20. Relationships of exchange amongst South African youth in an age of conspicuous consumption

A NOTE ON METHOD AND TERMINOLOGY

THE CHICKENS IN THE CABINET/MINISTRY

‘THE DEAL’ AND ‘THE INVESTMENT’

BEYOND THE TRANSACTION

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Contributors

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NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 1

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