Discussion Paper
March, 2002
Thabo Mbeki's New Partnership for Africa's Development
Breaking or Shining the Chains of Global Apartheid?

Notes

1. The author (pbond@wn.apc.org) teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand (where he co-directs the Municipal Services Project--www.queensu.ca/msp), writes for ZNet Commentaries (www.zmag.org), and is an associate of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (www.aidc.org.za) in Cape Town/Johannesburg and the Center for Economic Justice in Washington/Albuquerque (www.worldbankboycott.org). His recent books include Against Global Apartheid (University of Cape Town Press, 2001); Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal (Africa World Press, 2000), and Elite Transition (Pluto Press and University of Natal Press). Further documentation of problems caused by globalization and neoliberalism are available in his forthcoming Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest (University of Natal Press and Africa World Press, 2002). In relation to Mbeki's uneven relationship with South Africa's northern neighbor, see Bond and Masimba Manyanya, Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice (University of Natal Press, Merlin Press, and Africa World Press, 2002).
2. New Partnership for Africa's Development, 23 October 2001, http://www.NEPAD.org/, pa.40, 70.
3. Fanon, F. (1963), The Wretched of the Earth, New York, Grove Press, pp.152-153.
4. NEPAD, pa.28, 40, 52.
5. Toussaint, E. (2001), "Debt in Sub-Saharan Africa on the Eve of the Third Millennium," Discussion paper, Committee for the Abolition of third world Debt, Brussels.
6. NEPAD, pa.2, 33, 34, 35, 36.
7. Fake threats such as counterproductive radical-Islamic terrorism (which strengthened not weakened the forces of reaction in the U.S.) are no substitute for the potential threat of a united Africa which acts in its self-interest.
8. Mail and Guardian, 9 November 2001.
9. Mbeki, T. (2000), "Keynote Address to the National General Council," Port Elizabeth, 12 July.
10. Mbeki, "Keynote Address."
11. NEPAD, pa.29, 39, 31.
12. ANC Alliance (1998), "The Global Economic Crisis and Its Implications for South Africa," ANC Alliance Discussion Document, Johannesburg, reprinted in The African Communist, Fourth Quarter 1998.
13. Mail and Guardian, 6 and 13 December 2001.
14. For details, see Bond, Against Global Apartheid, Chapters 8-12, and documentation by the World Development Movement: http://www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/DEBT/unrest.htm, and at GreenLeft Weekly newspaper.
15. Mbeki, "Keynote Address."
16. Mills, J. and J. Oppenheimer (2001), "Partnerships Only Way to Break Cycle of Poverty," Financial Times, 1 October; Gondwe, G. and C. Madavo (2001), "New Swipe at Fighting Poverty," Financial Times, 7 October. See also South African Institute of International Affairs (2001), Breaking the Cycle (video), Johannesburg.
17. NEPAD, pa.7.
18. Mbeki, T. (2000), "Address at the Opening of the South Summit," Havana, 12 April.
19. http://www.aidc.org.za/
20. NEPAD, pa.118, 149.
21. NEPAD, pa.150.
22. http://www.jubileesouth.net/
23. NEPAD, pa.106.
24. African National Congress (1994), The Reconstruction and Development Programme, Johannesburg, Umanyano Publications, s.1.4.17,6.5.16.
25. NEPAD, pa.115, 106.
26. Mbeki, "Address by President Thabo Mbeki to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and U.S./SA Business Council Conference," 24 May 2000.
27. Financial Times, 11 November 1998.
28. Mbeki, "Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and U.S./SA Business Council Conference."
29. See, e.g., Tandon, Y. (1999), "A Blip or a Turnaround?," Journal on Social Change and Development, 49, December; Keet, D. (2000), "South Africa's Role in the WTO," Alternative Information and Development Centre Occasional Paper, Cape Town.
30. Erwin, A. (2000), "Opening Address to the Tenth Session of UNCTAD," Bangkok, 12 February.
31. NEPAD, pa.49, 127.
32. Mbeki, T. (2000), "Address at the Ebenezer Baptist Church," Atlanta, 26 May.
33. Batchelor, P. (1999), "South Africa: An Irresponsible Arms Trader?," in Global Dialogue, 4, 2, p.17.
34. Business Day, 27 August 2001.
35. Business Day, 28 August 2001.
36. NEPAD, pa.56.
37. NEPAD, pa.106.
38. World Bank (2000), Sourcebook on Community Driven Development in the Africa Region--Community Action Programs, Washington, Appendix 2.
39. Water Utilities Partnership (2001), "Kampala Statement," World Bank, Washington, DC, 14 March.
40. NEPAD, pa.27.
41. We know from Mbeki's August 2000 Oliver Tambo lecture that he is well-acquainted with the ideas of radical Africans. His failure to invoke these in NEPAD is revealing.
42. Mbeki, T. (2000), "Vox Populi--Is it Real?: Speech at the IUSY Festival," Stockholm, 28 July.
43. ANC (1996), "The State and Social Transformation," Discussion document reprinted in African Communist, 4.
44. NEPAD, pa.53, 55.
45. Africa Social Forum (2002), The Africa Social Forum Report, Bamako, Mali, 9 January.
46. African Caucus (2002), "Statement by the African Caucus on the 4th PrepCom on Financing for Development," New York, 25 January. (http://www.wtowatch.org/library/admin/uploadedfiles/Statement_by_the_African_Caucus.htm)