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EDITORS:
Bill Freund, Gerhard Mar6, Mike Morris (University of Natal),
John Daniel, Vishnu Padayachee (University of Durban-Westville)
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sity of Durban-Westville), Peter Hudson, Debbie Posel (University of the Wit-
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Francie Lund, Nic Amin (University of Natal), Mala Singh (CSD).
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Murray (SUNY Binghamton), Dan O'Meara (University de Quebec a Montreal),
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CONTENTS
Article
SLOW INSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS AND CAPITALIST
DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN INTEGRATION:
INTERPRETATIONS AND PROJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
AND ZIMBABWE
     Unlike other parts of this continent, southern Africa has historically
     been knitted together into a regional economy. It is ironic, according
     to a wide-ranging analysis by JEAN COUSSY, that political
     liberation is not bringing this process forward on a new basis. He tries
     to explain why and suggests an alternative policy approach.
Debate
FOR A SOCIOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION                                              41
     Sociology, argues RONALDO MUNCK, was born in struggle out of
     historical crisis. Its continued development depends on the critical role
     of transformative analysis in sociological discourse that directly
     explores the conditions of contemporary capitalism.
POLICY FORMULATION: COMMENTING ON PRICE                                        53
     BEN FINE expresses the need for an earlier contribution by Max Price
     to resolve itself into a more concrete kind of assessment.


Articles
DEMOCRATISATION OR BUREAUCRATISAITON?: CIVIL                                  55
SOCIETY, THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE STATE IN
POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
     In South Africa, civil society has been associated with the civics
     movement and the struggle of communities against the apartheid state.
      STEVEN FRIEDMAN and MAXINE REITZES review some of the
      arguments that were developed in the 1980s critically and consider
     from today's perspective how to take the goal of representative
      democracy further.
THE DEMOCRATISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA:                                          74
TRANSITION THEORY TESTED
      DAVID GINSBURG considers the extent to which assessment of the
      political shifts of the 1990s in South Africa can be understood under
      the currently significant rubric of transition theory.
THE 'LOST GENERATION': SOUTH AFRICA'S                                        103
 'YOUTH PROBLEM' IN THE EARLY 1990s
      Social concepts are not necessarily immutable; they may derive all too
      often from political imperatives. JEREMY SEEKINGS uses the
      example of the lost generation concept derived from what he considers
       to be a moral panic.