NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 3, the second phase - tragedy or farce?

321 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2013

A third collection of essays that analyse key issues facing South Africa.

"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 assessment of, the challenges." Henning Melber, Director Emeritus of the Dag Hammerskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and Research Associate with the Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State.

Contributions include:
"The ANC circa 2012-13: colossus in decline?" by Susan Booysen
"Fragile Multi-Class Alliances Compared: some unlikely parallels between the National Party and the African National Congress" by Paul Maylam
'"Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat': contentious politics and the climate justice movement" by Jacklyn Cock
"Hydraulic Fracturing in South Africa: correcting the democratic deficits" by David Fig
"Understanding the Persistence of Low Levels of Skills in South Africa" by Stephanie Allais
"Equity, Quality and Access in South African Education: a work still very much in progress" by Shireen Motala
"Traditional Male Initiation: culture and the constitution" by Louise Vincent.

John Daniel is the retired Academic Director of the School for International Training in Durban.
Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall are all in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.