In South Africa, the prevalent belief in the efficacy of increased regulation as a solution to addressing anomalies of social life leads to a cycle of reactionary policy making. This article highlights how government institutions in attempts to solution social ills neglect to consider the crucial aspect of behavioural change and lack of enforcement which often times continue to perpetuate true weak spots in South Africa’s public policy implementation process. While emphasising that more attention needs to be directed at producing thorough context-specific behavioural change programmes.
