The Zuma moment: between tender-based capitalists and radical economic transformation

ABSTRACT

The Jacob Zuma Presidency (2009–2017) was dogged by persistent allegations of corruption and the looting of State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) by those allied to him. It led to allegations of state capture that placed the Gupta family at the centre of this project. These allegations have been highly contested, with Zuma supporters arguing that he has come under attack because of his support for the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), which they hold challenges Western imperial interests. Alongside this are those aligned to the Gupta family, arguing that the real culprits of state capture, both historically and in contemporary South Africa, is White Monopoly Capital (WMC), through its ability to determine macro-economic policy. At the heart of this contest is what has come to be known as tender-based capitalists who sought to use access to SOE’s for the accumulation of capital. This process has been defended on the basis that it has the potential to lead a radical economic transformation (RET) that that can challenge the power of WMC. Others have held that this argument is a mere fig leaf for the looting of state coffers, eroding its capacity for deeper developmental initiatives and fostering a parasitic class. This article that focusses on this debate that entered the heart of the African National Congress (ANC) and threatened to tear it apart takes the form of a conjunctural analysis; conjuncture defined as an amalgam ‘of circumstances, a convergence of events, an intersection of contingencies and necessities, a complex, overdetermined state of affairs-usually producing a crisis, leading to breaking point, driving to historic crossroads’ (Mowitt 2015 Mowitt, John. 2015. “In The Conjuncture.” In Cultural Critique. Vol. 89, 125–127. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar], 125).     

Is Japan Really Back? The “Abe Doctrine” and Global Governance

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has emerged as the “comeback kid” of Japanese politics and in his second term of office is now widely regarded as a rare example of strong leadership as he seeks to arrest and reverse his country’s perceived decline. The strategy to achieve these objectives has come to be known as the “Abe Doctrine,” which represents a radical but risky shift in foreign policy. This article outlines the tenets of the evolving Abe Doctrine and then applies them to the Abe administration’s behaviour in the mechanisms of global governance, a highly pertinent but overlooked example. It argues that although a more strategic and coherent approach to global governance has emerged under Abe than had been previously evident, this has been at the expense of the norm of internationalism that has traditionally shaped Japan’s role.     

浅析居民收入差距对我国经济发展的影响

随着经济的高速发展,我国居民收入水平普遍提高,但收入分配不均的程度也在日益加剧。我国城乡之间、行业之间、区域之间、城镇（或农村）内部的收入差距都不断扩大。收入差距扩大必将阻碍经济发展,必须采取有力措施,缩小收入差距,促进经济持续稳定发展。     

从生态文明建设视域谈贵州经济社会发展

生态文明建设是落实科学发展观,实现贵州经济社会发展的正确选择,是贵州探索人与自然和谐发展的必然结论。因此,应该树立生态价值教育观,转变贵州经济发展方式,抓好节能减排工作,建立完善的政策和法律体系。     

贫困地区发展职业教育的几点思考

职业教育已成为我国教育体系的重要组成部分,是国民经济和社会发展的重要基础,是经济社会发展尤其是地方经济社会发展的主要力量。贫困地区如何发展职业教育,为经济发展服务,是值得认真思考的问题。     

反思与变革:我国刑事庭审中举证顺序的应然路径

修改后的刑事诉讼法已经颁布并即将实行,新刑事诉讼法运用了大量笔墨对证据制度进行了较为全面的修改与完善,但尚显不足的是该法在关注证据制度之外,对庭审中举证和质证程序未加以改动,依然延续了原法对于举证顺序的规定。根据实践的经验反馈,庭审过程中控辩双方对证据的运用直接关涉案件的定性与量刑,而举证次序更可能对法官自由心证产生深远的影响。因此对该程序的设计不能简单停留在对证据的列举层面上,而应通过精巧的程序设计,通盘考察证据制度的基本原理,建立以物证为中心的举证模式,并尝试构建以证明逻辑作为依据,较为灵活的举证顺序。在此基础上,进一步转变举证与质证衔接观念,将警察、鉴定人、证人作证与电子证据示证等环节科学地融入到庭审证据认定中。     

对国家契约非稳定性的探讨

国家契约是调整各国能源开发和公用设施建设的重要法律工具。但由于国家契约中国家作为主体一方出现,公权力的影响涉及国家契约很多方面,使国家之间和私人主体之间利益平衡难以实现,尤其是近年来间接征收的出现更加剧了国家契约非稳定性,从契约中寻求非稳定性的救济途径难以达到预想效果。在当今各国依然以能源开发和公用设施建设为经济发展的重要目标背景下,以平等自由理念构建国内法制度对国家契约的稳定发展应有一定意义。     

侵犯知识产权中损害数额的经济分析

侵犯知识产权的损害赔偿责任中,学界对如何确定损害数额存在着一定讨论。通过供需曲线这一经济学的基本方法对损害进行确定,具有直观、明确、简洁等优势,同时我们也可以发现我国目前在界定侵犯知识产权损害过程中的各种不当之处。     

Notes Toward a Theory of Ideology in Historlcal Writing on Modern Afrlca

Since the publication of her first novel Le ventre de l’Atlantique (2003), Fatou Diome, a Senegalese author who immigrated to France in the 1990s, has been regularly invited to French cultural TV programmes, in which she often criticises European foreign policy, as well as social and racial segregation. Despite her public political commitment, in several interviews, Fatou Diome argues that literature should be dissociated from politics. This article analyses Diome’s narrative techniques when depicting current social issues in her second novel Kétala (2006). In Kétala, Diome shows how Senegalese gay people and women face social violence and exclusion. Drawing on queer theory and the concept of performance, this article describes the various strategies through which marginalised identities in Kétala contest heteronormative social representations. This paper argues that Fatou Diome’s novel captures the reality through a singular poetics.     

发挥统战优势以旅游为平台推动经济发展——转型之中黔东南经济发展的思考

黔东南发展旅游业具有得天独厚约条件,发展旅游业是黔东南经济发展的钥匙.通过旅游这个平台,大力发展特色农业和工业,也就是说"旅游搭台,产业唱戏",就会提高黔东南的特色农业的产业化水平和加速工业化进程,就会加快黔东南经济社会的发展,实现经济的顺利转型.