The Genesis and Anatomy of the Industrial Biofuels Strategy of South Africa

III LIST OF TABLES VIII LIST OF FIGURES VIII ACRONYMS AND INITIALISMS IX RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE XI PREFACE XIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XVII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND THESIS OUTLINE 1 SETTING THE SCENE: BIOFUELS (POLICIES) AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN BIOFUELS STRATEGY 3 Hype, Mobilising Metaphors and the Meta-narrative of Biofuels to the Rescue 7 Confronting Complexities: Policy Perspectives and the Example of South Africa 8 RATIONALE AND AIMS OF THE THESIS 11 The Crux of the Matter 18 THESIS SUMMARY 21 CHAPTER 2: POLICY MATTERS ... BIOFUELS POLICY REVIEWS, THEORIES OF POLICYMAKING AND THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 25 A BRIEF EXCURSION INTO EXISTING BIOFUELS POLICY RESEARCH 27 The First Axis: Silhouettes and Situational Analyses 27 The First Axis Continued: Recommendations for Effective Biofuels Policies (and Policymaking?) 29 The Second Axis: Interrogating the Making of Biofuels Policies Internationally 31 INTRODUCING POLICY RESEARCH AND STUDYING THE POLICY PROCESS 34 An Initial Mapping of the Policy Process 35 Philosophical and Epistemological Considerations in Researching Policy 38 Positivistic Approaches to Policy and the Quest for Causality 40 The ‘Interpretive Turn’ and Interpreting Policy Knowledge and Political Legitimisation 44 Policy Development the Role of Policy and Policymaking in/for Development 52 PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE: THE RESEARCH METHODS 55 Methodology and Methods 57 Reflecting on the Research Approach: Some Procedural Strengths and Weaknesses 62 CONCLUSION 68 CHAPTER 3: SOUTH AFRICA’S PEOPLE AND POLICYMAKING 71 GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED IN SOUTH AFRICA 72 Apartheid and its Consequences in Brief 73 The Institutional and Administrative Structures of Government 75 POLICYMAKING PROCESSES IN SOUTH AFRICA 82 Models of Policymaking in South Africa 84 Policymaking and the Domination of the African National Congress 86 Wider Influences on Policy: Enter the Developmental State and Development Planning 88 CONCLUSION 99 CHAPTER 4: PROVINCIAL BIOFUELS ‘POLICIES’ AND A SNAPSHOT OF BIOFUELS PROJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 101 CONTEXTUALISING ‘WIN-WIN’ NARRATIVES: RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROPOSED, PAST AND PRESENT BIOFUEL PROJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 103