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State of the Nation: South Africa 2007
Book Description:
From the outcome of the 2006 local elections and the state of public hospitals to environmental issues and concerns about tourism, leading South African intellectuals explore a variety of issues central to the country’s development in this annual collection of essays. Insightful discussions of contemporary South Africa also address key topics such as violence against women, prison reform, the vast Zimbabwean exile community, and the role of the post-apartheid church.
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Introduction Politics Section The State of the African National Congress "Things Fall Apart: Can the Centre Hold?" The State of Coalition Politics in the Cape Metropolitan Council Municipal Elections 2006: protests, independents and cross-border municipalities Municipal Governance and Service Delivery: Case studies from the Free State A Silent Revolution: South African voters, 1994 - 2006 Local Government Budgets and Development: A Tale of Two Municipalities: Makhuduthamaga and Overstrand Economics Section Disability and Welfare in South Africa’s Era of Unemployment and Aids The ANC, Black Economic Empowerment and State-Owned Enterprises: a recycling of history? Technological Choices in South Africa: Ecology, Democracy and Development Old Victories, New Struggles: The state of the National Union of Mineworkers Rainbow, Renaissance, Tribes and Townships: Tourism and Heritage in South Africa since 1994 The Promise and the Practice of Transformation: the state of South Africa’s health system Public Hospitals in South Africa: stressed institutions, disempowered management Society Section ’Some of us know nothing except military skills’: South Africa’s former guerrilla combatants The State of South Africa’s Prisons ’Truck and Trailer’: Rugby and Transformation in South Africa Violence against Women in South Africa Kingdom Deferred? The Churches in the New South Africa, 1994 - 2006 Improving learner achievements in Schools: Applications of national assessments in South Africa Regional South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy South Africa in the DRC: Renaissance or neo- Imperialism? The Zimbabwean community in South Africa |
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Dr Sakhela Buhlungu is Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He currently serves on the editorial boards of academic journals, Labour History and Society in Transition. Professor John Daniel was previously Research Director in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC. In his career as a political science academic, he was seconded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996–1998) where he was part of the research team that wrote the five-volume final report. Professor Roger Southall is Distinguished Research Fellow of the HSRC and was formerly Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University. He is General Editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Jessica Lutchman was previously a researcher in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC. |
