The South African developmental landscape: restricted potentials or expansive, complex adaptive opportunities?
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Burman, C J
Mamabolo, R
Aphane, M
Lebese, P
Delobelle, P
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This article argues that the South African developmental landscape is currently locked
into an overly technical, path dependent paradigm that is unlikely to be capable of
embracing the complex challenges identified by the recent National Development Plan.
The article explores the internal logic of the existing path dependent, technical condition
from the perspective of complexity, in the context of the Department of Science and
Technology’s Fifth Grand Challenge and “continuous change”. It is argued that drawing
ideas from complexity into future developmental trajectories can add value to the
National Development Plan: Vision 2030, but to do so will require dynamic mind-set
shifts across multiple developmental scales and interfaces if new approaches to managing
development that embraces complexity, rather than denies it, is to emerge.
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Burman, C.J. et al. 2013. The South African developmental landscape: restricted potentials or expansive, complex adaptive opportunities?. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 9(1):17-37, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]