Search results

Focus 1 - Fourth Quarter 1995

Building the one-party state? The strange case of the Non-Profit Organisations Bill: The new "NGO Bill" gives the Government frighteningly interventionist ...

Focus 2 - First Quarter 1996

The unresolved mess over spying: The rash of reports over "spying" has not eventuated in the promised judicial commission. Zimbabwe: Democracy under threat: A ...

Focus 3 - Second Quarter 1996

South Africa's foreign policy: Human rights and national interests: All South Africans had cause to feel proud of the way in which Mandela led the response to ...

Focus 4 - Third Quarter 1996

The best and worst of times: South Africa's government at half-term: "Things have never been as good as they are now, but could also been seen as sliding ...

Focus 5 - Fourth Quarter 1996

Talking sense about university transformation: A somewhat uneasy consensus exists on most university campuses that something called "transformation" has to ...

Focus 6 - First Quarter 1997

The South African electorate at mid-term: The Helen Suzman Foundation commissioned a national opinion survey in October 1996. Black youth and the new ...

Focus 7 - Second Quarter 1997

Parties, issues and political fragmentation: Part two of the national opinion survey suggests a complex reality that creates problems for the ANC and the ...

Focus 8 - Third Quarter 1997

The truth about the Xhosa Nostra: Largely because of the early spread of missionary activity in the Eastern Cape, Xhosa-speakers gained an advantage. At the ...

Focus 9 - First Quarter 1998

The ANC is unclear about whether it wants revolution or reconciliation: President Mandela's speech at Mafikeng was regarded as both paranoid and menacing to ...

Focus 10 - Second Quarter 1998

Crime, Aids and unemployment point to an ineffective state: Editorial. Highway patrols: With improved intelligence, police are claiming a breakthrough in ...