The declining salience of the nation state has led to an interest in whether other socially constructed forms, such as the city, have replaced it as a source of accumulation, belief and identity. This article seeks to explore whether this is true in the case of the capital of one of Africa's least successful states, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Recent SouthAfrican policy making at the highest level has used the language of the developmental state. It has been used as a means of understanding and defining the purpose of ANC government. This article interrogates that concept, especially using the formation of an elite transcending the public-private sector divide and considering the concept of an 'embedded ...

The Gluckman Commission spent two years during World War II aiming ultimately unsuccessfully at the creation of an inclusive national health system with a number of progressive features, notably its emphasis on health centres and preventive medicine. It has tended to be flagged as evidence of the progressive side of the SAP government which was undone by the untime...