List of tables
List of figures
Acronyms
Preface – Glenn Moore
Introduction – Adam Habib, John Daniel and Roger Southall

PART I: POLITICS
1. The state of the state: Contestation and race re-assertion in a neoliberal terrain – Gerhard Mar
2. The state of party politics: Struggles within the Tripartite Alliance and the decline of opposition – Roger Southall
3. An imperfect past: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in transition – Madeleine Fullard and Nicky Rousseau
4. The state of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa – Xolela Mangcu
5. The state of local government: Third-generation issues – Doreen Atkinson

PART II: ECONOMY
6. The state of the economy: A crisis of employment – Nicoli Nattrass
7. The state of employment and unemployment in South Africa – Miriam Altman
8. The state of trade unionism in post-apartheid South Africa – Sakhela Buhlungu
9. The state of the labour market in contemporary South Africa – Percy Moleke

PART III: SOCIETY
10. State-civil society relations in post-apartheid South Africa – Adam Habib
11. The state of families in South Africa – Acheampong Yaw Amoateng & Linda Richter
12. The state of curriculum reform in South Africa: The issue of Curriculum 2005 – Linda Chisholm
13. The state of higher education in South Africa: From massification to mergers – Jonathan Jansen
14. HIV/AIDS policy-making in post-apartheid South Africa – Mandisa Mbali
15. The land question in contemporary South Africa – Michael Aliber & Reuben Mokoena

PART IV: SOUTH AFRICA IN AFRICA AND THE WORLD
16. South Africa as an emerging middle power: 19942003 – Maxi Schoeman
17. The South Africans have arrived: Post-apartheid corporate expansion into Africa – John Daniel, Varusha Naidoo & Sanushu Naidoo

Contributors
Index