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South Africa: What’s best – a developmental state or a capable state? | SA News

24 June 2025 by Guest
Loss of power: Renewable energy companies have been prevented from doing more in South Africa because the state’s procurement programme

There’s growing buzz about the “developmental state” and the idea that South Africa should follow that path. Experts and academics often point to Asian success stories: Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and China as models where the state took a leading role in economic growth, instead of leaving it to the markets to do as they please. 

This idea goes back to the work of American scholar Chalmers Johnson in the early 1980s, when he observed how post-war Japan’s government steered development through close coordination between the government and the markets. Since then, many scholars and policymakers have…

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  1. Shade Nightman

    11 September 2026 at 8:33 pm

    South Africa is such a great country and an African Sunset is on my bucket list, do you have any accommodation and/or tour recommendations for the Cape Town Area?

  2. Firefly

    8 September 2026 at 9:23 pm

    Fun South African Fact: The Dutch and the British fought over South Africa.

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