South Africa in Transition

ANTONY ALTBEKKER Deputy Director General of the Department of Finance in South AfricaDEBBY BONNIN Department of Sociology, University of Natal, DurbanROGER DEACON Education Department, University of Natal, DurbanMARK DEVENNEY Doctoral Student, University of EssexANDRIES DU TOIT Director of a Research Project on land reform and its policy implications in South AfricaSEAN FIELD Currently involved in setting up an oral History Research Project in Cape Town, South AfricaDARYL GLASER teaches Political Theory, University of StrathclydeDAVID HOWARTH Teaches Political Theory, University of StaffordshireROBERT MORREL teaches History and Gender-related courses, Education Department, University of Natal, DurbanALETTA NORVAL Director of the MA programme in Ideology and Discourse Theory, University of EssexBEN PARKER Chair of the Department of Education, University of Natal, PietermaritzburgJENNIFER ROBINSON Department of Geography, London School of EconomicsMARK SHAW Senior Researcher and Head of the Crime and Police Policy, Institute for Security Studies, JohannesburgJONNY STEINBERG Doctoral student, Oxford UniversityRUPERT TAYLOR Department of Political Science, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

• List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Changing Paradigms and the Politics of Transition in South Africa; D.R. Howarth and A.J. Norval The Dying Days of Apartheid; R. Taylor and M. Shaw Changing Discourses of Democracy and Socialism in South Africa; D. Glaser Reason and Representation in National Party Discourse, 1990-1992; A. Altbeker and J. Steinberg From the `Peaceful Past' to the `Violent Present': Memory, Myth and Identity in Gugulethu; S. Field Reinventing the Politics of Cultural Recognition: The Freedom Front and the Demand for a Volkstaat; A. J. Norval Identity and the Changing Politics of Gender in South Africa; D. Bonnin, R. Deacon, R. Morrell and J. Robinson Education, Development and Democracy in South Africa; R. Deacon and B. Parker The Fruits of Modernity: Law, Power and Paternalism in the Rural Western Cape; A.du Toit South African Literature, Beyond Apartheid; M. Devenney Paradigms Gained? a Critique of Theories and Explanations of Democratic Transition in South Africa; D. Howarth Chronology Index