1st Edition
The State and Development in South Africa Impasse, Prospects, and Challenges
Chapter 1: The Historicity of the State and Development in South Africa
Isaac Khambule
Chapter 2: The ANC’s Quest for a Developmental State in South Africa: A Magnificent Dream Lost in Translation
Horman Chitonge and Canisius Lekorotsoana
Chapter 3: Governing for Development in a Democracy: A Critique of the National Planning Commission
Siphamandla Zondi, Naledi Ramontja, Selemo Nkwe and Brilliant Ngobeni
Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and State Capacity in South Africa
Ndzalama Mathebula and Methembe Mdlalose
Chapter 5: Privatisation of State-owned Enterprises in South Africa: Implications for Aspiring Developmental States
Kholiswa Malindini and Loyiso Maciko
Chapter 6: Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) and Industrialisation in South Africa
Mlondi Vilakazi
Chapter 7: Political Leadership and State Capacity: Lessons in Building State Capacity
Dumisani Hlophe, Mandla Masuku and Andile Biyela
Chapter 8: The Prospects of Asymmetric Decentralisation in South Africa
Anthony Butler
Chapter 9: State Institutions and COVID-19 in South Africa: Key Lessons for Government Efficiency
Isaac Khambule
Chapter 10: Impediments to Development in post-apartheid South Africa: Endogenous and exogenous causal factors
Bheki Mngomezulu
Biography
Isaac Khambule is a professor of political economy and the Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was previously an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, where he taught Decision-Making in Public Institutions and was the Academic Head of the Executive Education Unit. Isaac’s research interest is on the relationship between the State, Institutions and Development, with a particular focus on the role of the state in economic development and the entrepreneurial state. He has also worked at the University of KwaZulu-Natal as a lecturer and at the Human Sciences Research Council as a researcher. His recent publications include two edited books: Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa (Routledge, 2024) and Contemporary South Africa and the Political Economy of Regional Development (Routledge, 2025).
