New South African Review 1

Peter Vale, Mark Swilling, Roger Southall, Louis Reynolds, Terry-Ann Selikow, Aurelia Kabwe-Segatti, Maxi Schoeman, Tara Polzer, Devan Pillay, Prishani Naidoo, Kammila Naidoo, Mike Muller, Seeraj Mohamed, Hein Marais, Neva Makgetla, Kezia Lewins, Lizle Loots, Loren Landau, Zosa Kropiwnicki, Samuel Kariuki, Colin Hoag, Jeremy Gordin, Graham Gibbon, John Daniel, Scarlett Cornelisson, Anthony Butler, David Bruce, Doreen Atkinson

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INTRODUCTION
South Africa 2010: From short-term success to long-term decline?
Roger Southall
INTRODUCTION to PART 1
South Africa and the eco-logic of the global capitalist crisis
Devan Pillay
CHAPTER 1: The state of the South African economy
Seeraj Mohamed
CHAPTER 2: The international economic crisis and employment in South Africa
Neva Makgetla
CHAPTER 3: The economic impact of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup: Ex ante ambitions and possible ex post realities
Scarlett Cornelissen
CHAPTER 4: Growth, resource use and decoupling: Towards a ‘green new deal’ for South Africa?
Mark Swilling
CHAPTER 5: Planning for sustainable living with limited water
Mike Muller
INTRODUCTION TO PART 2: The politics and challenges of delivery
John Daniel
CHAPTER 6: The African National Congress under Jacob Zuma
Anthony Butler
CHAPTER 7: Indigent management: A strategic response to the struggles of the poor in post-apartheid South Africa
Prishani Naidoo
CHAPTER 8: Fear, enervation and the systematisation of disorder: Challenges to reforming the Department of Home Affairs
Colin Hoag
CHAPTER 9: The mobile nation: How migration continues to shape South Africa
Loren Landau, Tara Polzer and Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti
CHAPTER 10: South African female peacekeepers: An exploration of their experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Maxi Schoeman, Lizle Loots and Kammila Naidoo
INTRODUCTION TO PART 3: Reform and redress in higher education, health and land
Roger Southall
CHAPTER 11: ‘Silencing and worse ... ’: The humanities and social sciences in South Africa
Peter Vale
CHAPTER 12: Realising transformation, equity and social justice in higher education
Kezia Lewins
CHAPTER 13: The polarising impact of South Africa’s AIDS epidemic
Hein Marais
CHAPTER 14: Health for all? Towards a national health service in South Africa
Louis Reynolds
CHAPTER 15: The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP): A beacon of growth for rural South Africa?
Sam Kariuki
CHAPTER 16: Breaking down barriers: Policy gaps and new options in South African land reform
Doreen Atkinson
INTRODUCTION TO PART 4: Signs of social decline? Crime, prisons, child trafficking and transactional sex
Prishani Naidoo
CHAPTER 17: Our burden of pain: Murder and the major forms of violence in South Africa
David Bruce
CHAPTER 18: Waiting for Godot: Awaiting trial detainees in South Africa
Jeremy Gordin
CHAPTER 19: Wolves in sheep’s skin: Trafficking of children in Musina, Limpopo Province
Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki
CHAPTER 20: Relationships of exchange amongst South African youth in an age of conspicuous consumption
Terry-Ann Selikow and Graham Gibbon

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• Political Economy
• Political Science
• General officer
• General

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• Publié par: WITS University Press
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781868147915
• Langue: English
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NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 1
2010: DEVELOPMENT OR DECLINE?
EDITED BY JOHN DANIEL, PRISHANI NAIDOO, DEVAN PILLAY AND ROGER SOUTHALL
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Contents Contents v Preface ix INTRODUCTION: South Africa 2010: From short-term success to long-term decline? 1 PART 1: ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY   INTRODUCTION: South Africa and the eco-logic of the global capitalist crisis 24 CHAPTER 1: The state of the South African economy 39 CHAPTER 2: The international economic crisis and employment in South Africa 65 CHAPTER 3:The economic impact of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup: Ex ante ambitions and possible ex post realities 87 CHAPTER 4: Growth, resource use and decoupling: Towards a ‘green new deal’ for South Africa? 104 CHAPTER 5: Planning for sustainable living with limited water 135 PART 2: STATE, POLITICS AND POLICY   INTRODUCTION: The politics and challenges of delivery 158 CHAPTER 6: The African National Congress under Jacob Zuma 164 CHAPTER 7: Indigent management: A strategic response to the struggles of the poor in post-apartheid South Africa 184 CHAPTER 8: Fear, enervation and the systematisation of disorder: Challenges to reforming the Department of Home Affairs 205 CHAPTER 9: The mobile nation: How migration continues to shape South Africa 218 CHAPTER 10: South African female peacekeepers: An exploration of their experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo 236 PART 3: EDUCATION, HEALTH AND LAND   INTRODUCTION: Reform and redress in higher education, health and land 254 CHAPTER 11: ‘Silencing and worse ... ’: The humanities and social sciences in South Africa 261 CHAPTER 12: Realising transformation, equity and social justice in higher education 281 CHAPTER 13: The polarising impact of South Africa’s AIDS epidemic 305 CHAPTER 14: Health for all? Towards a national health service in South Africa 326 CHAPTER 15: The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP): A beacon of growth for rural South Africa? 344 CHAPTER 16: Breaking down barriers: Policy gaps and new options in South African land reform 364 PART 4: CRIME AND SEX   INTRODUCTION: Signs of social decline? Crime, prisons, child trafficking and transactional sex 384 CHAPTER 17: Our burden of pain: Murder and the major forms of violence in South Africa 389 CHAPTER 18: Waiting for Godot: Awaiting trial detainees in South Africa 410 CHAPTER 19: Wolves in sheep’s skin: Trafficking of children in Musina, Limpopo Province 426 CHAPTER 20: Relationships of exchange amongst South African youth in an age of conspicuous consumption 447 Contributors 463 Index 465
Preface
In producing this, the first edition of the New South African Review , its editors seek to follow that tradition of critical scholarship established so firmly by the seven volumes of the South African Review which appeared in the 1980s and 1990s. They provided invaluable insights into the apartheid state’s strategies and the popular responses and struggles of those troubled and difficult years. Now, fifteen years into the making of South Africa’s democracy, the issues which face our society are very different, albeit bearing the heavy imprint of the country’s divided and unequal past. Since 1994, the successive governments headed by ANC presidents Mandela, Mbeki, Motlanthe and Zuma have not only had to assume the normal burdens of state but also to confront massive challenges of transformation across the political, economic, social and international spheres.
In retrospect, there have been considerable achievements. Yet, again, there have been many wrong moves, many downright failures and many disappointments, even though we should, perhaps, be humble enough to recognise that, with its particular legacies, South Africa is not an easy country to govern. Thus it is that the objective of the New South African Review is to provide a forum for reflection upon achievements, problems and challenges, and to stimulate debate between divergent positions held upon a wide range of issues. It is intended to be accessible to a wide range of readership, and to draw upon authors from well beyond academia. Its objective is to be informative, discursive and, at times, to be downright provocative. It is not intended to be an annual review of events, although it will seek to provide contemporary comment, and it will engage with (indeed, seek out) current controversies.
The New South African Review is housed in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. We should like to acknowledge, with thanks, financial support from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and from the Faculty Research Committee of the Faculty of Humanities at Wits. Neither of those bodies is responsible for any of the views expressed in any chapters of this volume, but both have kindly provided the material means whereby workshops and editorial meetings have been held, and peer review of all chapters conducted. Without their encouragement and backing this project would never have got going. Our thanks must also go to our authors for having more or less behaved themselves in submitting and revising chapters more or less according to a tight schedule, and for accepting our editorial harrying with a good grace. Finally, we should like to thank Doreen Atkinson, Jackie Cock, Mark Colvin, Simon Dagut, Emily Delap, Bill Freund, Leah Gilbert, Ruth Hall, Catherine Jenkins, Duncan Innes, Don Lindsay, Helene Perold, Maxine Reitzes and Christopher Saunders for making valuable comments upon different chapters in the peer review process.
John Daniel (School of International Training, Durban), Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall (all based at the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand).
May 2010
INTRODUCTION
South Africa 2010: From short-term success to long-term decline?
Roger Southall
For a decade and a half following the arrival of democracy, South Africa enjoyed its longest period of uninterrupted economic growth since the mid-1960s, ‘the golden age of apartheid’. Even if it is going far too far to suggest that the fifteen odd years after 1994 amounted to a ‘second golden age’ ( Abedian 2009 ), crude economic indicators demonstrate positive annual growth throughout the period, an increase in per capita incomes (at year 2000 prices) from R20 214 in 1994 to R25 897 in 2008, and a decline in the proportion of people living in absolute poverty 1 from 4.2 per cent in 1996 to 1.4 per cent in 2008 (SAIRR 2008–09: 92 and 302).
Further, even though the fruits of growth were highly unevenly shared and public service provision in key areas seriously attenuated, the extent of poverty was leavened by a substantial increase in transfer payments made by the state to the old, disabled, unemployed, for child support, and so on. Although these gains left much to be desired, it is nonetheless wise to locate them against the background of South Africa’s overall economic decline from around 1980 until 1994 and a period of near calamitous collapse during the uncertain years of the political transition. Meanwhile, this extended period of growth was accompanied by South Africa’s movement from racial authoritarianism to a democracy which, whilst incomplete, has provided a framework for political stability. Compared to the grim picture which the country projected in 1990, South Africa in 2010 is ‘another country’. Only a democratic South Africa, and one with a relatively advanced and stable economy, would have won the dubious honour of the right to host soccer’s World Cup in 2010 (Cornellison below).
Numerous critics have decried these achievements as seriously flawed: economically as failing to provide for socially just and sustainable development; politically by providing for a hollowed out democracy in which the constitution is under constant threat from the ruling African National Congress (ANC); and socially for a marked failure to ground aspirations towards collective welfare in an efficiently functioning state. Indeed, in this volume, we present a series of chapters which query the logic and performance of the present trajectory, outlining variously how its pursuit has led to deindustrialisation (Mohamed), persistent and unremittingly high levels of unemployment (Makgetla), and how it is running up against underlying resource constraints (Pillay, Swilling, Muller). Certainly, it is in the nature of the social sciences to provide critiques of the existing world against the imagination of utopias (even if, as Vale argues below, current state policies discourage such unbounded thinking). However, the role of the social sciences is also to compare existing reality against what might have been, whether for better or for worse. From this perspective, post-apartheid South Africa can lay claim to having been something of a success during the first two decades of democracy. The present outcome was by no means an historical inevitability, and accordingly critics of an imperfect present need to recognise that matters might have turned out a lot worse. Even so, it would seem that the foundations of this success over the short-term are today under threat;