The implications of global imperatives on the nature, capacity, character, and scope of democratic governance and the pursuit of equitable development in the new South Africa are assessed in this discussion. This text argues that implementation of economic reforms predicated on market fundamentalism as the dominant logic and paradigm of globalisation and economic management at the domestic level is incompatible with the quest for democratic governance and equitable development. Nonetheless, the authors foretell the eventuality of these favoured reforms and the resultant reproduction of a substantively undemocratic and inequitable society. Small crease in bottom right hand corner of front cover.