South African Informational Development and Human Development: Rights vs. Capabilities
South African Informational Development and Human Development: Rights vs. Capabilities
This chapter analyzes the disconnect between informational and human development in South Africa, a country better known for its racial divides. Most commonly associated with apartheid is racism and oppression, but in addition the country also has to address the underlying problem of a lack of dignity and the tension between rights and capabilities. A brief overview of post apartheid economic growth, inequality and human development is followed by a slightly more detailed assessment of informational development (ICT and higher education). This assessment provides the context for analysing the South African development model, and some possible reasons for some of the negative developmental outcomes. It concludes by asking the question as to whether rights, and an associated culture of victimhood, is not undermining policies that are aimed at developing capabilities (substantive freedoms such as education, skills and health) to provide dignity in liberty.
Keywords: dignity, rights, capabilities, ICT, higher education, developmental state, policy
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