Search results for ""Author Ben Turok""
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The controversy about economic growth
Informative and captivating, this record examines the present structure of the South African economy and asks what needs to be done to meet the challenges of deep poverty, high unemployment, and growing inequality that still mark the nation after 15 years of democracy. Considering the role that a developmental state could play in effecting change, it argues that despite being a resource-rich country, South Africa and its people do not benefit proportionally from the use of these resources due to difficulties in the realm of public decision-making. Written by leading thinkers within the African National Congress (ANC), this book belongs to a series that offers short yet informative introductions to ANC history, politics, and policy.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The ANC and the turn to armed struggle 1950-1970
First published in the late 1960s, this analysis investigates African National Congress’ history and policies. Covering the ruling South African Party’s past and present conflicts, including the circumstances before the downfall of the Apartheid, this comprehensive and detailed chronicle examines why the armed struggle was so distinctive and what made a transfer of state power necessary. It also considers why African nationalist sentiment is important and explores the relationship between revolution and democracy.
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New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd Changing the colour of capital: Essays in politics and economics
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Institute for African Alternatives and the Africa Institite From the Freedom Charter to Polokwane: The Evolution of the ANC Ecomominc Policy
In tracing the economic debates in the ANC from the Freedom Charter and Morogoro to the RDP and the present, this analytical overview shows that the shift to macro-economic stabilisation in the transition to democracy in 1994 was due to international pressure, and examines how it changed the trajectory of ANC policies. The government became frozen in the pursuit of cautious economic policies in the interests of fiscal prudence. The commitment to development lost momentum, compensated partially by the provision of modest social services and social grants. The revolt against economic orthodoxy at the ANC Polokwane conference which was pressed forward at the Tripartite Economic Summit in 2008 is traced, and the economic challenges that will face the new government in 2009 are analysed with original insights into what should be done to address the economic crisis. A framework for alternative development programmes based on a change of mindset about the centrality of development planning in a pro-people developmental state is set out. The analysis is based on 15 years' work in parliament and in economic committees of the ANC, which provided unequalled access to vast documentation and discussions with the top policy-makers of the ANC and government. Included are an extensive examination of the international conditions during the transition in 1994, the creation of the RDP, the switch to GEAR, the distortions of BEE, the dual economy, the lessons from Africa, and the reasons why the productive sectors of the economy have stalled. In conclusion, the decisions of the Tripartite Economic Summit and the proposed changes to government policies are assessed.
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Institute for African Alternatives and the Africa Institite Wealth Doesn't Trickle Down: The Case for a Developmental State in South Africa
No matter how strongly the IMF and World Bank advise that a country's salvation lies in economic growth, experience in developing countries is that wealth does not trickle down. When growth comes from the developed sector of the economy, it benefits the rich and simply does not reach the poor majority. Conditions in South Africa show the same outcome. Fourteen years after the ANC came to power; the South African unemployment rate of 24 percent is more than twice that of the next country on the list compiled by the Economist. Poverty is so prevalent that welfare grants are a desperate remedy in this "budget surplus" economy. No One denies that inequality is rising. All of this flies in the face of the Freedom Charter's declaration that sharing would be the guiding principle for a democratic South Africa. This title is the result of a high level seminar convened to draw together the threads of a vigorous national debate on the role of the State in socio-economic development. Hosted by the Minister of Provincial and Local Government, it was attended by top leaders and officials of the State, Parastatal Development Organizations and Academic Institutions. Although the prominence of the "developmental state" idea at the ANC policy and national conferences of 2007 has been met with concern in business circles as a "victory of the left", the papers here make a case that rests fat more.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd With my head above the parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power
Ben Turok, a former anti apartheid activist and veteran ANC MP, played a key role in the writing of the Freedom Charter, in particular its chapter dealing with economic equality. In November 2011, he broke party ranks and did not vote for the controversial Protection of Information Bill, also known as the Secrecy Bill. As cochairman of Parliament's ethics committee, he enforced strict compliance among MPs with the asset disclosure policy and presided over two controversial cases—those of former communications minister Dina Pule and ANC MP Yolanda Botha, who faced charges of fraud and corruption. With My Head above the Parapet is a record of Ben Turok's experience as a participant in the political life of South Africa since 1994. It is also an insightful account of the ANC's decline and current malaise, told by an insider intent on holding his party to its historical mission of liberating South Africa from poverty, inequality, and discrimination.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Policy and praxis: Readings in the ANC tradition
Providing a selection of important documents and extracts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the African National Congress (ANC) during the course of its history—from its founding in 1912 to the Polokwane national conference in 2007—this book fully covers the history and policies of one of the world's most historically important political parties. Fantastically detailed and comprehensive, these texts constitute the foundation of present thought and political culture in the ANC.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd History and ideology: Readings in the ANC tradition
These two volumes, which are meant as companion volumes to the book The Historical Roots of the ANC (published by Jacana in November 2010), provide a selection of important documents and texts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the ANC during the course of its history. Included are historic accounts and statements by the ANC and its leading figures and by other influential African and international thinkers and statesmen like Kwame Nkrumah, Frantz Fanon and Julius Nyerere.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The historical roots of the ANC
Written by leading thinkers within the African National Congress (ANC), this compilation sets out to provide short yet informative introductions to the party’s history, politics, and policy. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, this record looks at the principles and processes that led to the organization’s founding in 1912 and examines how they have influenced policy and practice for almost a century. Intended for ANC supporters and the wider public alike, this account argues that the diversity of influences on the ANC is indicative of a living and growing movement that has been sensitive to both the national and international environment in which it has found itself.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Development in a divided country
This title begins from the standpoint that new thinking is needed if South Africa is to generate sustainable economic growth, provide employment and decent work and promote rural development. As comparisons with other developing economies, particularly South Korea and Brazil, show, it is possible for the so-called developmental state to direct and plan economic activity and achieve developmental objectives. At the same time the title warns about the perverse impacts of black economic empowerment, particularly the growth of a rentier class of well-connected entrepreneurs.
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