The Malaysian experience of affirmative action: Lessons for Africa - Ian Emsley

South Africa has achieved a political miracle, but the economic reality poses a daunting challenge.

The country can ill afford to ignore the experiences of Malaysia, a country that has succeeded in creating a stable political culture and a thriving, open economy by implementing one of the world’s most extensive and successful affirmative action programmes. South African policy makers and concerned citizens should study Ian Emsley’s comprehensive analysis of the lessons for South Africa in Malaysia’s affirmative action and its developmental strategy in general, if only to firm their resolve to achieve a similarly benign socioeconomic revolution.