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This chapter offers a critical reappraisal of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) as a contested site of post-apartheid policy formulation. Drawing on archival research and interviews, it reveals the early influence of the National Treasury and international financial institutions in reconfiguring the RDP into a technocratic and fiscally constrained programme. Rather than a failed socialist experiment, the RDP is interpreted as a political battleground shaped by institutional power, neoliberalism and global economic ideologies. The chapter calls for renewed engagement with the RDP’s transformative ambitions to inform future policymaking.

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Reframing the Transition: The RDP and the Making of Post-Apartheid Economic Policy

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    2026年

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  • Gumani Tshimomola

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This chapter offers a critical reappraisal of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) as a contested site of post-apartheid policy formulation. Drawing on archival research and interviews, it reveals the early influence of the National Treasury and international financial institutions in reconfiguring the RDP into a technocratic and fiscally constrained programme. Rather than a failed socialist experiment, the RDP is interpreted as a political battleground shaped by institutional power, neoliberalism and global economic ideologies. The chapter calls for renewed engagement with the RDP’s transformative ambitions to inform future policymaking.