ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that social re-engineering in South Africa can optimally be effected if social services, resources, and other life chances are designed in a particular way that emancipates them from intergenerational poverty and social ills. It observes that these are government interventions that could fundamentally change the living conditions of citizens and the South African society. In the main, the former should hinge on the idea of universal provision. It notes that the way they are presently designed may not spur inclusive development and create the Good Society. Presently, it can be noted that the outcomes of government interventions and those of civil society, in these critical areas, fall short of creating a new society and seem to be ameliorative as opposed to being transformative.
