Instead, the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, is pursuing broadly the same prudent macroeconomic policies that prevailed under Thabo Mbeki's presidency from 1999 to 2008.Mr Zuma has been accused of weak leadership, particularly since his dreary state-of-the-nation speech earlier this month.
But it should be cautious optimism that prevails — policy efforts are still needed to strengthen the recovery and build more inclusive economies.
We live in a country that remains unrecognizable from the (brief and somewhat superficial) flourishing of multicultural diversity, tolerance of newness and otherness, and rationality toward policy issues that prevailed in the 1990s.
Instead, it is the darkness that prevails.
For example, Stephen King, an economist at HSBC, has called into question the inflation-targeting policy that still prevails even though the narrow focus on it before the banking crisis meant that central bankers lost sight of their historic role in ensuring financial stability.
The second group reflects a more traditional Republican foreign policy of the kind that prevailed under the first President Bush -- comfortable with alliances, treaties and international institutions, less assertive in the promotion of American values abroad, more Realpolitik in its judgments, more "sandpapered" in its language, as one aide put it.
Strongly opposed to the mercantilist theory and policy that had prevailed in Britain since the 16th century, Smith argued that free competition and free trade, neither hampered nor coddled by government, would best promote a nation's economic growth.
That may be precisely the kind of policy that's prevailed in umpteen smaller clubs, but Fabric proved it could work on a much larger scale: if 90s superclubs had showed a marked tendency to treat clubbers as if they were a boggle-eyed bovine mass, Fabric behaved as though they were discerning and knowledgeable.
Frederick insisted on bloodless "moral conquests", unifying Germany by liberal and peaceful means, but it was Bismarck's policy of blood and iron that prevailed.
