HDGC Teleconference Seminar

Let me deal with the tone and approach issues first. I found it disappointing that the paper adopts a tone that I find somewhat arrogant and condescending. This tone is adopted throughout and is best exemplified by the concluding remarks on the last page. This impression is exacerbated by the sometimes slick use of linguistic pyrotechnics, also well exemplified in the last two pages, and particularly the last three sentences. The overall impression that I was left with, was someone to trying to demonstrate how much more clever they are than the plodding planners and the benighted bureaucrats who are involved in the Greater Limpopo Project. This is a personal response, but one that I increasingly have to a growing body of social science research.