South Africa tackles global apartheid: Is the reform strategy working?

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 817-839

  Bond, Patrick ^a  

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EID: 12344303904     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-103-4-817     Document Type: Review

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1. Thabo Mbeki, "Address by President Mbeki at the Welcome Ceremony of the WSSD," Johannesburg, August. 25, 2002
2. Thabo Mbeki, "Letter from the President: Towards a People-Centered New World Order," ANC Today 3.43 (2003), www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/ 2003/at43.htm (accessed June 21, 2004)
3. Straights Times, September 4, 2003
4. Independent, January 30, 2003, www.independent.co.uk (accessed)
5. Andy Clarno, "Denel and the South African Government: Profiting from the War on Iraq," Khanya Journal, March 3, 2003
6. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 1961), particularly chapter 3
7. The argument about domestic politics is treated in more depth in an update of Patrick Bond, Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (London: Pluto Press, 2004)
8. I highly recommend several Web sites (www.nu.ac.za/ccs, http://south africa.indymedia.org and www.aidc.org.za) and numerous books written mainly by independent leftists over the past few years that give a strong flavor of the depth and breadth of the radical critique: Martin Legassick, Towards Socialist Democracy (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, forthcoming)
9. John Saul, The Next Liberation Struggle (London: Merlin Press, forthcoming)
10. Tom Bramble and Franco Barchiesi, eds., Rethinking the Labour Movement in the "New South Africa" (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
11. Simon Kimani Ndung'u, ed., The Right to Dissent: Freedom of Expression, Assembly and Demonstration in the New South Africa (Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute, 2003)
12. Neville Alexander, An Ordinary Country (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2002)
13. Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland, eds., Thabo Mbeki's World (London: Zed Books, 2002)
14. Gillian Hart, Disabling Globalization (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2002)
15. Ashwin Desai, We Are the Poors (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002)
16. David McDonald, ed., Environmental Justice in South Africa (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2002)
17. David McDonald and John Pape, eds., Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa (London: Zed and Pretoria, HSRC Publications, 2002)
18. J. Duncan, Broadcasting and the National Question (Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute, 2002)
19. Terry Bell and Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza Unfinished Business (Cape Town: Red-Works, 2001)
20. Simon Adams, Comrade Minister (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2001)
21. Hein Marais, South Africa Limits to Change (London: Zed Books, 2000)
22. and Patrick Bond, Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2000)
23. Statistics South Africa, Earning and Spending in South Africa (Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2002)
24. Business Day, November 22, 2002
25. For 1995, see Statistics South Africa, South Africa in Transition (Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2001)
26. for 2002, see Statistics South Africa, Labour Force Survey, September 2002 (Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2003), iii
27. Statistics South Africa, Database on Expenditure and Income, 2000 (Pretoria: Statistics South Africa, 2002)
28. See www.queensu.ca/msp (accessed June 22, 2004). Although the government has disputed the figures, they may actually be understatements
29. Patrick Bond, Unsustainable South Africa: Development and Social Protest (London: Merlin, 2002)
30. McDonald, Environmental Justice in South Africa
31. James Clarke, Coming Back to Earth: South Africa's Changing Environment (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2002)
32. Patrick Bond, "Labour, Social Movements and South African Foreign Economic Policy," in Philip Nel and Janis van der Westhuizen, eds., Democratising South African Foreign Policy (New York: Lexington Books, 2003)
33. See Patrick Bond, Against Global Apartheid (London: Zed Books, 2003), chaps. 8 and 9
34. and Bond, Elite Transition
35. See the film by Michèle Citoni, We Are the Poors (Rome, 2002)
36. as well as the report on WSSD issues by Giovanna Ricoveri in Capitalism Nature Socialism 11.4 (December 2002): 63
37. Cited in Ian Taylor, "Obstacles to Change in Africa: NEPAD, Zimbabwe, and Elites," Foreign Policy in Focus Commentary (2002), www.fpif.org/outside/commentary/2002/ 0204nepad.html (accessed June 22, 2004)
38. South African Institute of International Affairs, "NEPAD and WEF," eAfrica (July 2003): 11
39. Deepak Gopinath, "Doubt of Africa," Institutional Investor, May 2003
40. Norbert Funke and Saleh M. Nsouli, "The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): Opportunities and Challenges" (working paper 03/69, IMF, May 2003), www .imf.org/external/pub5/ft/wp/2003/wp0369.pdf (accessed June 22, 2004)
41. See Patrick Bond, ed., Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003)
42. Patrick Bond, "Can the New Partnership for Africa's Development Work?" in Karl Wohlmuth, ed., African Development Perspectives Yearbook: African Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development (Bremen: Institute for World Economics and International Management, 2003)
43. and Patrick Bond and Trevor Ngwane, "African Anti-Capitalism," in Rachel Neumann and Andrew Hsiao, eds., Anti-Capitalism: A Field Guide to the Global Justice Movement (New York: New Press, 2003)
44. See also the discussion of "subimperial partnership" in Bond, Unsustainable South Africa, 368-75
45. The most rigorous studies in 2002 were conducted by highly experienced political economists: Adebayo Adedeji, "From the Lagos Plan of Action to the New Partnership for Africa's Development, and from the Final Act of Lagos to the Constitutive Act: Whither Africa?" (keynote address prepared for the African Forum for Envisioning Africa, Nairobi, April 26-29, 2002)
46. Jimi Adesina, "Development and the Challenge of Poverty: NEPAD, Post-Washington Consensus and Beyond" (paper presented to the Codesria/TWN Conference on Africa and the Challenge of the 21st Century, Accra, April 23-26, 2002)
47. Peter Anyang'Nyong'o, et al., eds., NEPAD: A New Path? (Nairobi: Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2002)
48. Dani Nabudere, "NEPAD: Historical Background and Its Prospects," in Anyang'Nyong'o, et al., NEPAD
49. Adebayo Olukoshi, "Governing the African Political Space for Sustainable Development: A Reflection on NEPAD" (paper prepared for the African Forum for Envisioning Africa, Nairobi, April 26-29, 2002)
50. The story of Pretoria's bizarre relationship with the Zanu-PF regime is told in Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya, Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice (Harare: Weaver Press, 2003)
51. Herbert Murerwa, finance minister, "The 2003 National Budget Statement" (presented to Zimbabwe Parliament, Harare, November 14, 2002)
52. Morgan Tsvangirai, "President of the MDC's Speech to MDC Parliamentarians" (Harare, Zimbabwe, December 18, 2002)
53. Cited in the foreword to Masimba Manyanya, ed., NEPAD's Zimbabwe Test: Why the New Partnership for Africa's Development Is Already Failing (Harare: Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development, 2003)
54. Business Day, March 28, 2003
55. Time, June 10, 2002
56. Gopinath, "Doubt of Africa."
57. Sunday Times, June 30, 2002
58. Financial Times, June 2, 2003
59. African Women's Communication and Development Network et al., "Joint Statement," www.wdm.org.uk/campaign/evianafricanngo.htm (accessed May 5, 2004)
60. Cape Times, July 4, 2002
61. Business Report, June 8, 2003
62. Le Figaro, June 4, 2003
63. Dennis Brutus, "Global Agendas Are Set by the Usual Suspects," Business Day, June 27, 2002
64. These are covered well elsewhere, and don't bear repetition: John Fisher, "Africa," in Emma Bircham and John Charlton eds., Anti-Capitalism: A Guide to the Movement (London: Bookmarks, 2002)
65. Leo Zeilig, ed., Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa (Cheltenham: New Clarion, 2002)
66. Samir Amin, Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (London: Zed Books, 1985)
67. Waiden Bello, Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London: Zed Books, 2002)
68. Bond, Against Global Apartheid, pt. 4
69. This goes against the grain of some antistatist arguments on the left, especially Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2000). However, most of the major social movements in the world are in some sort of struggle relationship to their nation-state, even the Zapatistas at their peak
70. Njongonkulu Ndungane, A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa (Cape Town: David Philip, 2003), 31