Where is the development in SA’s developmental state?

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Published: Apr 6, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14426/na.v92i1.2107
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Development, Economy, Matisonn, Development State, South Africa, African National Congress, Economic growth, Gini coefficient, migrant labour, Unemployment, Africa, Economic conditions, Socio-economic conditions, Economic policy, Foreign economic policy

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John Matisonn

Abstract

The ruling party defines South Africa as a ‘developmental state’, but with its rising job losses, growth that is lower than most of its African neighbours and rising inequality can that really apply? What’s missing, asks John Matisonn.

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Matisonn, J. (2024). Where is the development in SA’s developmental state? . New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, 92(SI). https://doi.org/10.14426/na.v92i1.2107
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Vol. 92 (2024): New Agenda 92: Special Issue on Economics and Labour in the Global South
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Section 1: Economic development in the Global South
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Author Biography

John Matisonn

Journalist and author Matisonn began political reporting in 1974. He was foreign correspondent in Washington for the Rand Daily Mail and reported for National Public Radio in the US. He has been published in the New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Observer and many others. After four years as a broadcast regulator in the Mandela administration, he became the UN’s Chairperson of the Electoral Media Commission in Afghanistan. He has published two books on South Africa’s political transition process.