South Africa after apartheid: The first decade

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 78-92

  Alence, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 3543011355     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2004.0038     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Jonathan 'Zapiro' Shapiro, cartoon in the Sunday Times (Johannesburg), 21 March 2004, www.sundaytimes.co.za/2004/03/21/insight/zapiro.gif.
2. The National Assembly has seen one exchange of punches, between ANC and an NP member (both Afrikaner males) two years after the NP's withdrawal from the GNU.
3. See Hein Marais, South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transformation (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and Zed, 1998);
4. for a briefer summary, see Tom Lodge, Politics in South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), 54-85.
5. The contrast between "technocratic" and "consultative" policy making in the two issue-areas is confirmed by participants' own observations; see Rod Alence, "The Economic Policymaking Process in South Africa: Report on a Survey of an Informed Panel, Late 1997," Democracy and Governance Research Report (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 1998).
6. Though the number of AIDS-related deaths can only be estimated, the pandemic's magnitude is staggering; see Rob Dorrington et al., "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Adult Mortality in South Africa," Burden of Disease technical report, Tygerberg, South Africa, Medical Research Council, 2001; Thomas M. Rehle and Olive Shisana, "Epidemiological and Demographic HIV/AIDS Projections: South Africa," Journal of AIDS Research 2 (May 2003): 1-8.
7. Though the number of AIDS-related deaths can only be estimated, the pandemic's magnitude is staggering; see Rob Dorrington et al., "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Adult Mortality in South Africa," Burden of Disease technical report, Tygerberg, South Africa, Medical Research Council, 2001; Thomas M. Rehle and Olive Shisana, "Epidemiological and Demographic HIV/AIDS Projections: South Africa," Journal of AIDS Research 2 (May 2003): 1-8.
8. On the evolution of AIDS policy in South Africa, see Nicoli Nattrass, The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 41-65; Olive Shisana and Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, "Government's Changing Responses to HIV/AIDS," in David Everatt and Vincent Maphai, eds., The Real State of the Nation: South Africa After 1990, special issue of Development Update 4 (November 2003): 165-87; on policy in the Mbeki era, see also Tom Lodge, Politics in South Africa, 255-65.
9. On the evolution of AIDS policy in South Africa, see Nicoli Nattrass, The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 41-65; Olive Shisana and Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, "Government's Changing Responses to HIV/AIDS," in David Everatt and Vincent Maphai, eds., The Real State of the Nation: South Africa After 1990, special issue of Development Update 4 (November 2003): 165-87; on policy in the Mbeki era, see also Tom Lodge, Politics in South Africa, 255-65.
10. On the evolution of AIDS policy in South Africa, see Nicoli Nattrass, The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 41-65; Olive Shisana and Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, "Government's Changing Responses to HIV/AIDS," in David Everatt and Vincent Maphai, eds., The Real State of the Nation: South Africa After 1990, special issue of Development Update 4 (November 2003): 165-87; on policy in the Mbeki era, see also Tom Lodge, Politics in South Africa, 255-65.
11. A complete collection of judgments is available at the Constitutional Court's website at www.concourt.gov.za. The case numbers for the examples discussed later in this section are CCT 8/02 (government policy on mother-to-child HIV transmission) and CCT 23/02 (laws permitting legislative "floor-crossing").
12. After the first floor-crossing "window" in 2003, several previous NNP mem bers stayed with the DA; enough departed to hand the ANC-NNP control of the Western Cape and Cape Town; and the United Democratic Movement's national delegation shrank from 14 to 4.
13. Carol Paton, "Drowning in a Sea of Troubles," Sunday Times, 4 February 2001; "Statement by Andrew Feinstein, MP," 30 August 2001, www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/2001/pr0830c.html.
14. "How the Case against Shaik Implicates the Deputy President," Sunday Times, 31 August 2003.
15. For a more detailed analysis of crossnational African patterns, see Rod Alence, "Political Institutions and Developmental Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Modern African Studies 42 (June 2004): 163-87.
16. Barry Weingast, "Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law," American Political Science Review 91 (June 1997): 245-63.
17. Adam Przeworski et al., "What Makes Democracies Endure?" Journal of Democracy 7 (January 1996): 39-55.
18. The murder rates are from official South African Police Service sources, and the most recent available figures are for 2002. Independent national survey research also points to high but decreasing levels of violent crime between 1998 and late 2003; see Patrick Burton et al., "National Victims of Crime Survey: South Africa, 2003," ISS Monograph Series (Pretoria: Institute of Security Studies, May 2004).
19. Thabo Mbeki, "Letter from the President: Voters Will Not Be Swayed by Fear or Fiction," ANC Today, 5 March 2004.
20. Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), 266-67.