Patrick Bond

The then deputy president, Thabo Mbeki, ordered state officials to ‘Send the signals to the markets’. Rising unemployment and inequality were the logical result, as Mbeki’s team made SA much more vulnerable to international finance than ever in its history.

1. See the excellent anti-patriarchal arguments in Lewis, S. (2004) ‘Keynote Lecture at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections,’ San Francisco, 8 February.

2. One of the best surveys is in Lodge, T. (2002) 'Politics in South Africa', Cape Town, David Philip.