ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the structural problems of inequality and poverty. radication of poverty and inequality are the primary objectives that the justice model is constructed to accomplish. And the chief means are affirmative action measures of different varieties. Distributive concerns are at the very heart of the justice model as a constitutional model for South Africa. With regard to redistribution and general economic performance, a potential problem pertaining to the justice model is that there are few mechanisms restraining governments tempted to engage in ‘macroeconomic populism’ and heavy deficit spending. Proponents of consociationalism admit that consociational models are most adequate for countries where the socioeconomic resources are evenly distributed between the groups. Regardless of the relative importance ascribed to ethnic conflict, South Africa is indisputably a heterogeneous society. The justice model’s answer to the problems of pluralism is regarded as insufficient by adherents of consociational theory.
