Recession and Recovery: 2009 Transformation Audit

Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

Recession and Recovery offers an assessment of the concrete impact that negative growth had in 2009 on the longerterm prospects for the creation of an equitable and just economic dispensation in South Africa. Successive editions of this publication have shown that the quest for economic transformation is a challenging one under the best of circumstances; the implications of a recession undoubtedly compound the magnitude of the task. Will South Africa sustain its transformational momentum in the economy in a context of shrinking government revenues, growing material insecurity and a substantial decline in employment levels? How will the new Zuma administration navigate its way through these troubled waters?