Building the one-party state? The strange case of the Non-Profit Organisations Bill
The new "NGO Bill" gives the Government frighteningly interventionist powers over the non-governmental sector.

Interview with Bill Johnson, director of The Helen Suzman Foundation
"I voted Labour more often than anything else but latterly I tended to vote Liberal."

The unresolved mess over spying
The rash of reports over "spying" has not eventuated in the promised judicial commission.

Zimbabwe: Democracy under threat
A series of constitutional amendments indicate that minimum standards for a free and fair election are unlikely to be met.

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 the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

North of South
At the time of independence, Zimbabwe had zero debt. By June 1996 debts totalled 130% of GDP.

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 towards catastrophe."

Managing democracy: The problematic birth of the electoral commission
In 1993 the management of South Africa's first democratic elections was taken away from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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

All our futures: The new schools Act
The South African Schools Act (1996) fulfills the dreams of generations of anti-apartheid activists.

The South African electorate at mid-term
The Helen Suzman Foundation commissioned a national opinion survey in October 1996.

Black youth and the new democracy
What do young black people think about the new South Africa?

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

The Helen Suzman Foundation and the SABC
A bizarre story of media bias.

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 rainbow's end
With its fairytale connotations, the idea of the rainbow nation was perhaps always too good to be true.

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 the cause of democracy.

Questions about Winnie
Was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela deceived and trapped by apartheid’s notorious security police?

Crime, Aids and unemployment point to an ineffective state
Editorial.

Highway patrols
With improved intelligence, police are claiming a breakthrough in stemming the spate of dramatic cash-in-transit heists.