Instead, the focus shifts to inclusive governance and social justice as a disciplinary duty. Within this milieu, the performance of disciplinary duty falls, as Marais argues, on “shoehorning the assortment of social tensions into a false narrative of social justice broadly centred on social provisioning”. Indeed, one of the government’s celebrated policy declarations has been its acclamation of growth as a basis for social inclusion. However, in the passage from apartheid to post-apartheid cities, government policymakers may display a studied courtesy to the poor, invoking palliative concepts such as “inclusive governance” and “social justice”, but the underside of growth is social exclusion. One of the most abiding myths to emerge in official policy discourse has been the failure of the official economy to grow at rates that benefit the poor.