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CREA 40_138 COVER_CREA_I_40_138_COVER 10/12/13 12:38 PM Page 1 SPINE WIDTH: 6.5 mm TRIM SIZE: 174 X 248 mm ROAPE No. 138 2013 Review of African Political Economy Volume 40 Number 138 December 2013 Editorial ‘The art of neoliberalism’: accumulation, institutional change and social order since the end of apartheid Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Aurelia Segatti 507 Articles Swimming against the tide: the Macro-Economic Research Group in the South African transition 1991–94 William Freund 519 Stuck in stabilisation? South Africa’s post-apartheid macro-economic policy between ideological conversion and technocratic capture Aurelia Segatti and Nicolas Pons-Vignon 537 Expectations and outcomes: considering competition and corporate power in South Africa under democracy Gertrude Makhaya and Simon Roberts 556 Volume 40Volume Number 138 December 2013 Poverty, grants, revolution and ‘real Utopias’: society must be defended by any and all means necessary! Firoz Khan 572 South Africa: the transition to violent democracy Revisiting the South African Karl von Holdt 589 developmental impasse: Marikana, turning point in South African history Peter Alexander 605 the national neoliberal revolution Issue Editors: Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Aurelia Segatti Briefings and Ray Bush Longevity of the Tripartite Alliance: the post-Mangaung sequence Raphae¨l Botiveau 620 Labour market restructuring in South Africa: low wages, high insecurity Miriam Di Paola and Nicolas Pons-Vignon 628 Marikana: fragmentation, precariousness, strike violence and solidarity Crispen Chinguno 639 Book reviews 647 Included in the ISSN 0305-6244 Social Sciences Citation Index® CREA 40_138 COVER_CREA_I_40_138_COVER 10/12/13 12:38 PM Page 2 Guidelines for Contributors Submission: Please ensure that your proposed submission (articles, debates, briefings and book reviews) falls within the ROAPE remit (see inside front cover). 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