The National Development Plan (NDP) marks a significant turning point in South Africa's approach to development. Although hailed by many for its long-term vision of a sustainable and inclusive development path, the Plan appears to be negating the more egalitarian, inclusive, and broad-based and potentially more transformative and empowering Reconstruction and Development Plan (RDP) of 1994. The NDP appears to be reneging on some fundamental issues that are pivotal to transformative development. Much as the job-creating agenda of this comprehensive plan is important, it cannot be a substitute for the imperative to transform ownership and access to productive resources for the majority. Yet it appears that NDP effectively maintains the status quo with respect to fundamental issues such as land reform and redistribution and the democratic participation and access to the mineral wealth of the country. Whereas the NDP is indeed broade