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| Title: | State Reform Policy in South Africa |
| Authors: | Morris, Mike Padayachee, Vishnu |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Pages: | 1-26 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | political change apartheid Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/62/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | During the 1970s numerous pressures started to build up for a restructuring of the socioeconomic basis of reproducing labour power of black workers in South Africa. The first phase of reform policy was spearheaded by the Wiehahn (union) and Riekert (urbanization) reforms (1979) and the reform of monetary and exchange rate policy (De Kock commission, 1978). These reforms were still primarily articulated within the politico-ideological structures of apartheid policy. The second phase of the State's reform policy, in the early 1980s, aimed at the formation of functional, economic, social and political administrative units. These reforms engendered a limited, but significant 'democratization' of social and political life. Space was opened up for political organizations of the popular classes to emerge openly and to denounce these reforms as mere windowdressing. They counterposed a strategy of 'ungovernability' (mainly a strategy of 'boycottism') to the State's reform process. The State answered with abandoning the 'democratization' elements in its reform programme and initiated a series of repressive interventions to restore stability. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
