ANC supporters, so used to being up against the apartheid state, find worrying about a counterweight to the ANC absurd.
Focus 11 - 3rd Quarter 1998
South Africa needs a strong opposition: ANC supporters, so used to being up against the apartheid state, find worrying about a counterweight to the ANC absurd. The future shape of South African politics: Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins discuss the tension that exists between dominant-party rule and democracy.
Suspicions about the commission’s moral and political preference for the ANC are well justified, argues Patrick Laurence.
Relaxed students and happy staff feature in the University of Venda prospectus, but RW Johnson finds fear and corruption.
The Democratic Party leader talks about recent by-election success and answers critics who accuse it of moving to the right.
Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins discuss the tension that exists between dominant-party rule and democracy.
Rob Amato describes how residents of a Cape Town suburb that had no police station set about reducing crime in their area.
African nationalists, communists and trade unionists are competing for the ANC parliamentary list.
The debt cancellation lobby is chasing a chimera.