NALSU NEWS: Labour Studies Podcast/Video: Dr John Reynolds'

*Development planning in South Africa: Provincial policy and state power in the Eastern Cape*

NALSU NEWS: Labour Studies Podcast/Video: Dr John Reynolds' "Development Planning in South Africa: Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape" - seminar / book event.

TOPIC: While South Africa has been celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people continue to live in severe poverty. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the post-apartheid Eastern Cape provincial government launched a historically ambitious effort at tackling the region’s poverty, unemployment and inequality over a ten-year period. This radical policy overhaul was entitled the Provincial Growth and Development Plan 2004-2014.

Drawing on first-hand engagement with the planning process, and with reference to his pathbreaking book, "Development Planning in South Africa: Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape," Dr Reynolds provides an indispensable micro-level study to explore the ways in which these unprecedented changes were negotiated -- and eventually undermined -- by the South African state. Utilising a strategic-relational approach, this empirically rich study has profound implications for our understanding of how state power is organised, and expressed, in state policy

DETAILS: This is a recording of a live event at the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), held on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 4:15pm, Eden Grove Seminar Room 2, Rhodes University, South Africa. It was followed by an event in East London on Thursday, 2 August 2018, hosted by NALSU and the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council (ECSECC).

PODCAST: https://tinyurl.com/ymk66z6v

YOUTUBE:https://youtu.be/NnVhjf1sq9E

SPEAKER: Dr John Reynolds was the founding head of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University. His extensive experience in the Eastern Cape includes work for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, and on development programmes financed by the European Union (EU).

HOSTS: The Labour Studies Seminar Series is run by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in partnership with the Departments of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, and Economics & Economic History, Rhodes University.

ABOUT NALSU: Based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, NALSU is engaged in policy, research and workers' education. Built around a vibrant team, including from the disciplines of Sociology and Economics, NALSU has a democratic, non-sectarian, non-aligned and pluralist practice, and active relations with a range of advocacy, labour and research organisations. We draw strength from our location in a province where the legacy of apartheid and the cheap labour system, and post-apartheid contradictions, are keenly felt. NALSU is named in honour of Neil Hudson Aggett, union organiser and medical doctor who died in an apartheid jail in 1982 following brutality and torture.

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