Six principles were said to guide ANC policies: (1) an integrated and sustainable programme; (2) a people-driven process; (3) peace and security for all; (4) nation-building; (5) the linking of reconstruction and development; and (6) the democratization of South Africa. Of these the key to economic policy was prin- ciple number 5. In contrast to the view that economic growth and development/redistribution are contradictory processes, the RDP docu- ment claimed to ‘break decisively’ by integrating the two