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TRANS
 FORM
ATION
          ARTICLES
WHAT'S IN A NAME?:
Some Reflections on the Natal Indian Congress
   Ratnamala Singh and Shahid Vawda
STATE RESTRUCTURING OF WELFARE
   Francie Lund
NEGOTIATION AND ARMED STRUGGLE IN
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA
   Ian Phillips
          DEBATE
TRANSFORMING TRADITION OR
TRANSFORMING SOCIETY:
Sitas, Hlatswayo and Performative Literature
   Andrew     Spiegel
          DOCUMENT
THE TRANSKEI "COUP D'ETAT" AND THE
MILITARISATION OF THE APARTHEID STATE
   Centra de Estudos Africanos
A NEW PERSPECTIVE AND DIRECTION
FOR SACOS
   NACOS
          REVIEW ARTICLE
CELEBRATING THE FREEDOM CHARTER
   Gavin Williams
          REVIEW
CLASS, COMMUNITY AND CONFLICT
    Iain Edwards


 Transformation 6 (1988)
 CONTRIBUTORS
 IAIN EDWARDS lectures in History at the University of Natal.
 FRANCIE LUND is a researcher attached to the Centre for Social and Develop-
 ment Studies, University of Natal, Durban.
 IAN PHILLIPSlectures in Political Studies at the University of Natal.
RATNAMALA SINGH lectures in Philosophy at the University of Durban-
Westville.
ANDREW SPIEGEL is attached to the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Cape Town.
SHAHID VAWDAlectures in Anthropology at the University of Durban-
Westville.
GAVIN WILLIAMS lectures in Politics at the University of Oxford, is an editor
of Review of African Political Economy and an associate editor of Transforma-
tion.