Social policy in the post-apartheid era

This chapter explores the trajectory of social policy in post-apartheid South Africa. In doing this, it attempts to ascertain whether there have been major shifts made, since 1994, away from the previous colonial-apartheid social policy dispensation. As the primary public policy that responds to the task of buoying up human well-being, it is imperative to find out if social policy has been able to help create a new society like the Good Society since 1994. The chapter also reiterates transformative qualities of social policy which need to inform the social re-engineering process in the post-apartheid era.