This article examines the changing basis of South African labour market and skill formation in the late Apartheid reform era of 1979-1993. It does so by arguing for the adoption of a macro-institutional model which focuses on the impact of both macro and micro processes on labour market formation. This is best achieved by combining the contributions of the American segmented labour market school, the British Cambridge labour market school and the more recent labour market insights emanating from the debate on post-Fordism. The article concludes by examining the extent to which Apartheid's labour market policies may constrain social and economic reconstruction in the post-Apartheid era. Affirmative Action strategies and post-Fordist macro-economic policies are specifically examined. The analysis suggests that these post-Apartheid policies carry the great risk of increasing rather than diluting racially discriminatory labour market segmentation. © 1995, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
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