Assesses the implications of global imperatives for the nature, capacity, character and scope of democratic governance and the pursuit of equitable development in the new South Africa.

The implications of global imperatives on the nature, capacity, character, and scope of democratic governance and the pursuit of equitable development in the new South Africa are assessed in this discussion. This text argues that implementation of economic reforms predicated on market fundamentalism as the dominant logic and paradigm of globalization and economic management at the domestic level is incompatible with the quest for democratic governance and equitable development. Nonetheless, the authors foretell the eventuality of these favored reforms and the resultant reproduction of a substantively undemocratic and inequitable society.