Towards Democratic Development States in Southern Africa

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The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a �developmental state�? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development.

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• Publié par: Weaver Press
• Date de parution: 14 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781779223081
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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T OWARDS D EMOCRATIC D EVELOPMENTAL S TATES IN S OUTHERN A FRICA

T OWARDS D EMOCRATIC D EVELOPMENTAL S TATESIN S OUTHERN A FRICA

edited by

Godfrey Kanyenze

Herbert Jauch

Alice D. Kanengoni

Masego Madzwamuse

Deprose Muchena

Published by

Weaver Press

Box A1922, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe

<www.weaverpresszimbabwe.com>

First published in 2017

© Each individual chapter, the author, 2017

This compilation, the editors, 2017

Cover Design: Danes Design, Harare

Map: Street Savvy, Harare

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Printed by Kadimah Print, South Africa

The publishers, editors and contributors would like to express their gratitude

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ISBN: 978-1-77922-307-4 (print) Weaver Press

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Words of Praise for Towards a Democratic Developmental State

‘Bold, critical and comprehensive. An aunthentic and convincing case for the creation of democratic, transformative, inclusive and developmental states in Southern Africa. The timing of the volume could not have been better. I strongly recommend that anyone truly interested in progress in Africa read this book.’ Theresa Moyo (Associate Professor, Master of Development Programme, Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo)

‘This book is a rich and compact one-stop review of the global history and trajectory of developmental states, the making, consolidation, and retrenchment of the post-colonial African state, and the continuing quest for a sustainable structural transformation of African economies. For academics, public intellectuals, activists, and policy officials with an interest in why and how Africa must not only reinstate game-chang- ing development strategies as a cardinal principle and objective of state policy, and do so on the basis unalloyed democratic ideals, this book will be a compulsory and valuable companion.’ Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director for Africa and West Asia, Inter- national IDEA.

‘The first round of this region’s Developmental State debate quickly became stale, because it was top-down and in the talk-left walk-right tra- dition. This very welcome book, with chapters authored by hard-working regional scholars, NGO staff and activists, will help reignite the dis- cussion. The timing now is especially urgent, as the end of the export commodity price boom – and with it ‘Africa Rising’ myth-making – reveals the limits of both the neo-liberal strategy and the Chinese model. This book shows how better economic balance (including along gender lines), productive localisation and income redistribution are crucial components of genuine developmental state building.’ Patrick Bond, Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance, South Africa.

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C ONTENTS

About tHe AutHors Foreword 1. Conceptual Framework – Towards Democratic Developmental States in SoutHern Africa 2. he State in SoutHern Africa: A Case for Placing Women at tHe Centre  –Alice D. Kanengoni 3. A Need for Developmental Intervention in SoutH Africa  –habileng Motabi 4. Botswana: Africa’s Democratic Developmental State or OutrigHt Flattery? TowardsInclusiveDemocratic Developmental States  – Setunya Mosime & Gape Kaboyakgosi 5. he Need for Developmental State Intervention in Namibia  –Herbert Jauc & Ellison Tjirera 6. Towards a Transformative Democratic Developmental State in Zimbabwe – tHe Complex Journey  –Jesimen T. Cipika & Joyce A. Malaba 7. Towards Developmental States in SoutHern Africa: Post-War Angola: tHe Dual Nature of GrowtH witHout Development in an Oil RicH State  –Jesse Sala Ovadia & Sylvia Croese 8. State of tHe State in Malawi: An Agrarian Developmental State?  Reinford Mwangonde & Sawo Mwakilama 9. SyntHesis and Way Forward: Towards Democratic Developmental States in SoutHern Africa

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jesimen T. Chipikahad a distinguished career spanning over three de- has cades, which includes working as a development economist with the United Na- tions Country Team, the World Bank, the private sector and civil society, regional UN entities in Africa, the SADC Secretariat, the University of Zimbabwe, and the Government of Zimbabwe. She has led and documented many broad-based development processes in Zimbabwe and the SADC region, including National Human Development Reports, Poverty Assessments, 2015 Millennium Devel- opment Goals, and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. She has won several in- ternational awards in development economics and advises many organisational boards locally, regionally and internationally.

Sylvia Croeseis a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociolo- gy at the University of Cape Town, and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sci- ences of Agostinho Neto University. She holds a PhD in sociology from Stellen- bosch University; her thesis – ‘Post-war state-led development at work in Angola: The Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study’ – examined the politics of state-led housing development in post-war Angola. She has published and con- ducted extensive research in and on Angola and has an interest in issues related to China-Africa relations, housing and urban development, local governance and electoral politics in Africa.

Herbert Jauch has been with the labour movement in Southern Africa for many years. He served in the leadership of the Namibia National Teachers Union as well as on various committees of the National Union of Namibian Workers. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked as a labour researcher, carrying out research projects for various Namibian and Southern African trade unions, mostly while being the director of the trade union based Labour Resource and Research Insti- tute. Herbert holds an MA in political studies and currently heads the education centre of the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union.

Gape Kaboyakgosi, a public policy specialist, is currently Deputy Vice Chancellor of ABM University College, Gaborone. His main areas of focus are how governments use policy instruments – particularly regulation – to attain broader governance aims, and the public-policy-development nexus. He has co-edited two books and published works in the fields of regulation, anti-cor- ruption, governance, government-business relations and implementation. Gape ix