ABSTRACT

This article re-examines existing interpretations of the ANC's economic and social policy choices during the negotiations that led to South Africa's democracy. The divergence but also convergence crucially in economic policy thinking of key policy actors within the ANC and the National Party (NP) led apartheid regime is contrasted. The National Party's economic policy agenda is discussed with attention to its key ‘technocratic’ policy actors and how they influentially negotiated neo-liberal policy positions with the ANC. The economic and social policies of the ANC must be seen in contrast as part of a series of attempts historically at advocating social democratic oriented policies. The ANC leadership however marginalised and abandoned these ideas and policies in a social democratic vein in the consensus seeking transition era. The paper tries to explain these shifts and to come to grips with the complexity of the actors, history and politics of ANC policy thinking in the transition era.

摘要

本文重新审视了在促成南非民主的谈判过程中，非国大对经济和社会政策选择的现有解释。在非洲人国民大会和国民党（NP）领导的种族隔离制度中，关键政策参与者在经济政策思想上的分歧和至关重要的趋同被形成对比。讨论国民党的经济政策议程时，要注意其主要的“技术官僚”政策参与者以及他们如何与非国大协商影响新自由主义政策立场。相比之下，非国大的经济和社会政策必须被视为历史上一系列倡导以社会民主为导向的政策的尝试的一部分。然而，在寻求过渡时期的共识中，非国大领导层边缘化了这些想法和政策，并以社会民主的方式抛弃了这些想法和政策。