ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to propose how the governing party and other actors of civil society could get the country out of the quagmire of the negotiated settlement’s track, after 25 years of freedom. It discusses the abolishing of the provincial sphere of government, in so far as social service provision and the implementation of policies are concerned. The book deals with the former minister’s sentiments and finds them valid and suggests that there is a need to chart a new trajectory for South Africa, after 25 years of democracy, through social re-engineering that is buttressed by transformative social policy. The viability of the new democracy is threatened by bureaucratic incapacity, the inability of the state to make meaningful progress in deracialising the economic system, and its failure to alleviate the widespread poverty and social deprivation.
