New South African Review 3

Stephanie Allais is the director of the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Prishani Naidoo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Devan Pillay is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Roger Southall is the Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Stephanie Allais is the director of the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• Party, power and class: The power elite in democratic South Africa: Race and class in a fractured society; The ANC circa 2012: Colossus in decline?; Fragile multi-class alliances compared: some unlikely parallels between the National Party and the African National Congress; Predicaments of post-apartheid social movement politics: The Anti-Privatisation Forum in Johannesburg . Ecology, economy and labour: Mass unemployment and the low-wage regime in South Africa; Nationalisation and the mines; Broad Based BEE? HCI's empowerment model and the syndicalist tradition; 'Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat': Contentious politics and the climate justice movement; Hydraulic fracturing in South Africa: Assessing the deficits. Public policy and social practice: Understanding the persistence of low levels of skills in South Africa; Equity, quality and access in South African education: A work still very much in progress; Health sector reforms and policy implementation in South Africa: A paradox?; Cadre deployment versus merit? Reviewing politicisation in the public service; Traditional male initiation: Culture and the Constitution. South Africa at large: South Africa and the BRIC: Punching above its weight?; The Swazi Nation, the Swazi government and the South African connection.

The New South African Review offers, for the third time, a valuable compass to navigate us through South(ern) African socio-economic and political realities. It is an important stocktaking exercise. With every year, the New South African Review becomes an ever more important tool for analytical insights into, and assessments of, the challenges. - Henning Melber, Director Emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foun- dation in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria; and Research Associate with the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State.