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Acronyms

Preface

Introduction

PART I: POLITICS
1 The state of the state: Contestation and race re-assertion in a neoliberal terrain
2 The state of party politics: Struggles within the Tripartite Alliance and the decline of opposition
3 An imperfect past: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in transition
4 The state of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa
5 The state of local government: Third-generation issues

PART II: ECONOMY
6 The state of the economy: A crisis of employment
7 The state of employment and unemployment in South Africa
8 The state of trade unionism in post-apartheid South Africa
9 The state of the labour market in contemporary South Africa

PART III: SOCIETY
10 State-civil society relations in post-apartheid South Africa
11 The state of families in South Africa
12 The state of curriculum reform in South Africa: The issue of Curriculum 2005
13 The state of higher education in South Africa: From massification to mergers
14 HIV/AIDS policy-making in post-apartheid South Africa
15 The land question in contemporary South Africa

PART IV: SOUTH AFRICA IN AFRICA AND THE WORLD
16 South Africa as an emerging middle power: 19942003
17 The South Africans have arrived: Post-apartheid corporate expansion into Africa

Contributors
Index