ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the meaning of two concepts which are central to this book’s expositions and propositions, namely social engineering and particularly social re-engineering. This task is undertaken to first show how South Africa was constructed via social engineering by colonial and apartheid political systems. Second, the section highlights what social engineering is and then clarifies why this process should be instituted in post-apartheid South Africa after a quarter century of democratic rule. Also, discussion here points to the fact that these concepts are directly linked to the task of building new societies.
