When the racist Apartheid system in South Africa was ousted in 1994, the new ANC government embraced neoliberal economic theory and set about privatizing virtually everything, they cut taxes for the wealthy, destroyed capital controls and deregulated their financial sector. However after 21 years of neoliberal government, more black South Africans are living in extreme poverty, more people are unemployed and South Africa is an even more unequal society than it was under the racist Apartheid regime. Miraftab explains in the article ‘Neoliberalism and casualization of public sector services’ where the case of waste collection services in Cape Town is used as an example she says that although ‘each have relied on distinctive arguments, discourses and ideologies, both the apartheid and the
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For instance, if one ethnic group is powerful enough to deny basic civil rights to other ethnic groups, then political decisions will be made solely to benefit the dominant group rather than society as a whole. To give an example of this we can look at Moldova. In Way’s article “Weak States and Pluralism: The Case of Moldova” he argues that ‘Moldova’s weak state, tenuous elite networks, and polarized politics have provided key sources of democracy in the post- Soviet period’ (Way, 2003: 454), he goes on to say that ‘In cases of pluralism by default, politics remain competitive because the government is too polarized and the state too weak to monopolize political control in an international environment dominated by democratic powers’ (Way, 2003: 455). Therefore weak pluralism in Moldova occurred through the division over national identity along with weak elite networks that had their roots within soviet era, which were characterized by individualism. Conversely looking at the third concern we look at strong
For instance, if one ethnic group is powerful enough to deny basic civil rights to other ethnic groups, then political decisions will be made solely to benefit the dominant group rather than society as a whole. To give an example of this we can look at Moldova. In Way’s article “Weak States and Pluralism: The Case of Moldova” he argues that ‘Moldova’s weak state, tenuous elite networks, and polarized politics have provided key sources of democracy in the post- Soviet period’ (Way, 2003: 454), he goes on to say that ‘In cases of pluralism by default, politics remain competitive because the government is too polarized and the state too weak to monopolize political control in an international environment dominated by democratic powers’ (Way, 2003: 455). Therefore weak pluralism in Moldova occurred through the division over national identity along with weak elite networks that had their roots within soviet era, which were characterized by individualism. Conversely looking at the third concern we look at strong