Development Planning in South Africa

A comprehensive and meticulous discussion of the evolution of a far-reaching, ultimately failed, provincial development plan. Focussing on a discursive analysis, Reynolds records how the social content got burnished away, neoliberal economic prerogatives came to the fore and the government placed to the fore mega-interventions that could make the state look good in obvious ways. * Bill Freund, University of KwaZulu-Natal *
Reynolds's compelling policy analysis of the Eastern Cape illustrates how a sophisticated, strategically sensitive approach can explain the limits on state power in challenging the logic and rule of capital in post-apartheid, neoliberal South Africa. * Bob Jessop, Lancaster University *
i>'Development Planning in South Africa shines powerful new light on the multi-layered relations of power that limited and undermined a seemingly promising initiative to break the chains of poverty and inequality in the Eastern Cape. * Gillian Hart, University of Berkeley *
A fascinating account of the policy process in a developing country. The author's "insider" perspective gives the analysis a particular originality and depth of understanding. Useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of political economy and development. * Janet Cherry, Nelson Mandela University *
An analytically sound, comprehensive treatment of the planning process in the Eastern Cape that gives the reader a case study and general insights about how and why development programmes fail. Not to be missed. * John Weeks, School for Oriental and African Studies *