Devan Pillay is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.William Attwell is Senior Analyst for Sub-Saharan Africa at Frontier Strategy Group in OxfordLeslie Bank is the Deputy Executive Director of the Economic Performance and Development Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).Roger Southall is the Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Imraan Buccus is a Senior Research Associate at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute (ASRI) in Johannesburg.

• INTRODUCTION: The Zuma presidency: The politics of paralysis?John Daniel and Roger SouthallCHAPTER 1: The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents: Contesting the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma eraDevan PillayCHAPTER 2: The African National Congress and the Zanufication debateJames Hamill and John HoffmanCHAPTER 3: Dancing like a monkey: The Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South AfricaNeil Southern and Roger SouthallCHAPTER 4: Democracy and accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa?Paul HoffmanCHAPTER 5: Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa: Gaps and opportunitiesImraan Buccus and Janine Hicks CHAPTER 6: Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgiaLeslie Bank and Clifford MabhenaCHAPTER 7: South Africa and ‘Southern Africa’: What relationship in 2011?Chris SaundersINTRODUCTION TO PART 2: Continuing crises, contradictions and contestationPrishani NaidooCHAPTER 8: ‘The wages are low but they are better than nothing’: The dilemma of decent work and job creation in South AfricaEdward WebsterCHAPTER 9: The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitalsHaroon SaloojeeCHAPTER 10: The worker cooperative alternative in South AfricaVishwas Satgar and Michelle WilliamsCHAPTER 11: Policing in the streets of South African townshipsKnowledge Rajohane MatshedishoCHAPTER 12: BEE Reform: The case for an institutional perspectiveDon LindsayCHAPTER 13: Bokfontein amazes the nations: Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised communityMalose Langa and Karl von HoldtINTRODUCTION TO PART 3: Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisationDevan PillayCHAPTER 14: Above and beyond South Africa’s minerals-energy complexKhadija Sharife and Patrick Bond CHAPTER 15: Corrosion and externalities: The socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the WitwatersrandDavid FigCHAPTER 16: Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010William AttwellINTRODUCTION TO PART 4: Media transformation and the right to knowDevan PillayCHAPTER 17: The print media transformation dilemmaJane DuncanCHAPTER 18: The South African Broadcasting Corporation: The creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new oneKate Skinner