In this extensively revised follow-up volume to his acclaimed book South Africa: Limits to Change, published in 2001, Hein Marais brings new insights to the country's ongoing transition from apartheid. Marais critiques the conservative economic policies that have brought spectacular wealth to the privileged but condemn 40 per cent of the population to poverty. The big winners of the transition, the book shows, have been the country's major conglomerates. The basic structure of Africa's biggest economy, however, remains largely intact and continues to serve a small minority which now also accommodates sections of the new political elite. The signal change, Marais argues, is the predominance of financial capital, which excels at the expense of the real economy but exerts enormous influence on policy. Crucially, the book also spotlights the devastating impact of three simultaneous epidemics - AIDS, tuberculosis and malnutrition. It explains how the country became the site of the world's worst AIDS epidemic, analyses the policy failures that exacerbated it, and details the havoc these epidemics are wreaking on society. Importantly, it outlines key changes for undoing the harm done. By critically surveying South Africa's route to liberation and the balance of forces that has shaped the past 15 years, this book provides a benchmark critical analysis of the long journey beyond apartheid.
Title: South Africa Pushed to the Limit
Sub Title: The Political Economy of Change
Author: Hein Marais
Publisher: UCT Press
Year: 2011
Number of pages: 566
ISBN: 9781919895406
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