TRANS
   FORM
AT ION
critical
perspectives
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Southern
Africa


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                          ISSN: 0258-7696


 FORM
           ARTICLES
A BIT ON THE SIDE:
Gender straggles in the politics of transformation
  Shireen Hassiin, Jo Metelerkamp and Alison Todes
MAKING SENSE OF THE CRISIS:                        33
  Steve Gelb
ZIMBABWE:
The inheritance of the anti-colonial straggle      51
  Ian Phimister
UBUNTU-BOTHO:
Inkatha's peoples'education                        60
  Praisley Mdluli
               DEBATE
REFORM:
Greek gift or Trojan horse                         78
  Steven Friedman
THE POLITICAL SIGNIHCANCE OF COSATU:
A response to Plaut                                94
  Karl von Holdt
A REJOINDER TO VON HOLDT:                          104
   Martin Plaut
            DOCUMENT
DEMOCRACY AND KWANATAL:                            107
   AlecErwin


   CONTRIBUTORS
   LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  ALEC ERWIN       was Education Secretary for COSATU at the time of writing
                   the document appearing in this issue. He Is currently
                   National Education Secretary for NUHSA.
  STEVE FRIEDMAN is presently a senior researcher at the Institute of Race
                  Relations and the author of Building Tomorrow Today: African
                   Workers in Trade Unions 1970-84.
  STEVE GELB       is a co-founder of the the Labour and Economic Research
                  Centre (LERC) and a co-author, with John Saul, of Crisis in
                  South Africa.
  SHIREEN HASSIH has been lecturing in History and Philosophy at the
                  University of Durban-Westville. She is currently working on
                  her MA thesis on the Inkatha Womens1 Brigade.
  PRAISLEY MDLULI is a Phd student at the University of Natal.
 JO METELERKAMP is a lecturer in African Studies at the University of Natal.
                  Her MA thesis was on Indian Women in Colonial Natal.
 IAN PHIMISTER is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cape
                  Town and the author of a forthcoming authorative economic
                  history of Zimbabwe.
 MARTIN PLAUT    works for the BBC's Africa service. He is the co-author,
                 with Denis Macshane and David Ward, of Power!: Black
                 Workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in South
                 Africa.
ALLISON TODES lectures in Town and Regional Planning at the University of
                 Natal and is the co-author with Dave Dewar and Vanessa
                 Watson of Regional Development and Settlement Policy.
KARL VON HOLDT has recently been appointed editor of the South African
                 Labour Bulletin.