Introduction
The ANC State: more dysfunctional than developmental?
Roger Southall
Politics Section
The State of the African National Congress
Anthony Butler
"Things Fall Apart: Can the Centre Hold?" The State of Coalition Politics in the Cape Metropolitan Council
Zwelethu Jolobe
Municipal Elections 2006: protests, independents and cross-border municipalities
Mcebisi Ndletyana
Municipal Governance and Service Delivery: Case studies from the Free State
Doreen Atkinson
A Silent Revolution: South African voters, 1994 - 2006
Collette Schulz-Herzenberg
Local Government Budgets and Development: A Tale of Two Municipalities: Makhuduthamaga and Overstrand
Neva Makgetla
Economics Section
Disability and Welfare in South Africa’s Era of Unemployment and Aids
Nicoli Nattrass
The ANC, Black Economic Empowerment and State-Owned Enterprises: a recycling of history?
Roger Southall
Technological Choices in South Africa: Ecology, Democracy and Development
David Fig
Old Victories, New Struggles: The state of the National Union of Mineworkers
Sakhela Buhlungu and Andries Bezuidenhout
Rainbow, Renaissance, Tribes and Townships: Tourism and Heritage in South Africa since 1994
Heather Hughes
The Promise and the Practice of Transformation: the state of South Africa’s health system
Sharon Fonn, Helen Schneider and Peter Barron
Public Hospitals in South Africa: stressed institutions, disempowered management
Karl von Holdt and Mike Murphy
Society Section
'Some of us know nothing except military skills': South Africa's former guerrilla combatants
Lephophotho Mashike
The State of South Africa’s Prisons
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
'Truck and Trailer': Rugby and Transformation in South Africa
Ashwin Desai and Zayn Nabbi
Violence against Women in South Africa
Lisa Vetten
Kingdom Deferred? The Churches in the New South Africa, 1994 - 2006
Anthony Egan
Improving learner achievements in Schools: Applications of national assessments in South Africa
Anil Kanjee
Regional
South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy
John Daniel, Jessica Lutchman and Alex Comninos
South Africa in the DRC: Renaissance or neo- Imperialism?
Claude Kabemba
The Zimbabwean community in South Africa
Elinor Sisulu, Bhekinkosi Moyo and Nkosinathi Tshuma