Elite Transition

Patrick Bond is Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, where he directs the Centre for Social Change. He is the author of several books, including BRICS and Elite Transition.

'Successfully highlights some telling events and processes that help us understand why the transition unfolded as it did, and, crucially, why it is not just South Africans who should be deeply concerned at this series of developments'

• List of Acronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Dissecting South Africa’s TransitionPart I: Power and Economic Discourses1. Neoliberal Economic Constraints on Liberation2. Social Contract ScenariosPart II: The Ascendancy of Neoliberal Social Policy3. Rumours, Dreams and Promises4. The Housing Question Part III: International Lessons5. The World Bank as ‘Knowledge Bank’6. Beyond Neoliberalism? South Africa and Global Economic Crisis Afterword: From Racial to Class Apartheid Afterword to the New Edition: South Africa Faces Its ‘Faustian Pact’: Neoliberalism, Financialisation and Proto-FascismNotes and References Index