South Africa : Social Research: an International Quarterly of the Social Sciences: the Second Decade

Eleven years of press freedom, the separation of the executive, parliament, and judiciary, and a growing vigor in civil society provide clearly defined positive signposts on the road taken by postapartheid South Africa. Its transition into a nascent democracy has been celebrated in many ways but perhaps the most important and invigorating is the amount of writing about this first period. This special issue of Social Research is another attempt to explore the nature of the South African transition in the years since April 1994. Both scholars and activists were invited to contribute to this issue, and each author brings a special perspective. Their papers span a broad range of topics'from the state of the economy, with its deeply structural problems and an unemployment rate of 20 to 30 percent, to the nature and impact of important symbols of the South African transition, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the state of South Africa's foreign policy forays.Mack, Arien is the author of 'South Africa : Social Research: an International Quarterly of the Social Sciences: the Second Decade', published 2005 under ISBN 9781933481029 and ISBN 1933481021.