Contributors MARK PHILLIPS and COLIN COLEMAN are researchers at the Centre for Policy Studies based at the University of the Witwatersrand. ALAN MRSCH lectures in the Department of Economic History, Univer- sity of Cape Town and is researching for a doctorate for Colombia University, New York. ROGER ETKIND has worked on co-operatives in Britain and Zimbabwe. He is a researcher at the University of Natal, Durban involved with the S AWCO co-operative at Mphopomeni. NICOLINATTRASS is a researcher at the University of Stellenbosch and a Cambridge University doctoral candidate in economics. JULIAN COBBING lectures in history at Rhodes University and writes about southern and south-central Africa in the nineteenth century. EDDIE WEBSTER, professor of sociology at the University of the Wit- watersrand, pays tribute to DAVID WEBSTER, colleague at the same University, who was assassinated on 1 May 1989. Perspectives in Education The leading journal on education in Southern Africa The policy of the journal is to promote discussion and debate around education in Southern Africa. The editors unequivocally reject racism and the socially discriminatory practices of apartheid. Two issues annually Rates: Individuals Institutions Students Home R15 R30 RIO UK & Europe £7 £15 USA & Canada $20 $30 ^Austr & New Z $20 $30 Send order to: Perspectives in Education Faculty of Education P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa. Perspective in Summer/ Volume 10 No. 1 & 2 Winter 1988/89 ARTICLES Education, Politics and the State • • •• Speaking in Tongues: Apartheid and Language • • •• Youth Organisation on the Witwatersrand •••• Farm Schooling for Black South Africans REVIEWS AND DEBATE • Black Matriculation Results • • Big Business and S.A. 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