The second volume of the New South African Review (NSAR) continues a tradition of debate and critical, analytical scholarship about contemporary South Africa. Drawing on authors from academia and beyond, it aims to be informative, discursive and provocative. In this volume, the New Growth Path (NGP) adopted by the South African government in 2010 provides the basis for a debate about whether "decent work" is the best possible solution to South Africa's problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. Rising inequality is explored against the backdrop of the failings of Black...

In response to the continued inequality, poverty, and unemployment that have served to trigger rising working-class discontent around South Africa, the African National Congress announced a second phase of the national democratic revolution to deal with the challenges all the while preserving the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex that defined racial capitalism. The chapters included in this third volume of the "New South African Review," all written by experts in their fields, examine some of these challenges and indicate that they are as much about the defective content of...