INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE
= LISA THOMPSON & ANTHONY LEYSENS: CHANGING NOTIONS
  OF HUMAN SECURITY IN THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGION.
= GOOLAM VAHED ON INDIANS, ISLAM AND THE MEANING OF
  SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZENSHIP.
= JUSTIN BARNES ON GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE
  INDUSTRY.


                              TRANSFORMATION
                      critical perspectives on Southern Africa
                                     ISSN 0258-7696
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TRANS                                          43 (2000)
Critical perspectives on Southern Africa
                             CONTENTS
Articles
Changing notions ofhumansecurity in the southern African         I
region
        Lisa Thompson and Anthony Leysens raise some
        challenges for critical human security approaches to the
        analysis of the political economy ofthe southern African
        region.
Indians, Islam and the meaningof South Africancitizenship        25
—a question of identities
        Goolam Vahed examines the formation and transforma-
        tion of identities among Indian Muslims in Durban.
Globaltrends in the automotive industry: their likely impact     52
on South African automotive assembly and component
manufacturers
        Justin Barnes outlines international trends in the
         automotive industry and assesses their impact on South
         African automotive manufacturing.
 Debates
 Calling the Glass HalfFull: a response to Berger’s ‘Towards     75
 an analysis of the South African media andtransformation,
 1994-1999’
         Gibson Mashilo Boloka and Ron Krabill
 TRANSFORMATION43 (2000) ISSN 0258-7696


Responseto Boloka and Krabill                              90
      Guy Berger
Reviews
Alan Morris’s Bleakness and Light: innercity transition in 98
      Hillbrow, Johannesburg reviewed by Shahid Vawda.
Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster (eds) Trade Unions and       102
      Democratisation in South Africa, 1985-1997 reviewed
      by Harry Zarenda.
Tom Lodge’s Consolidating Democracy: South Africa’s second 109
     popularelection and South African politics since 1994
      reviewed by Laurence Piper.