critical
perspectives
on
Southern
Africa


EDITORS:
Bill Freund, Gerhard Mare, Mike Morris (University of Natal), Vishnu
Padayachee (University of Durban Westville)
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Stephen Gelb (University of Durban-Westville), Peter Hudson, Alan
Mabin (University of the Witwatersrand), David Kaplan, Alan Hirsch
(University of Cape Town), Colin Bundy (University of the Western
Cape), Robert Davies (University Eduardo Mondlane), Gavin Williams
(University of Oxford), Dan O'Meara (University of Quebec, Montreal),
John Saul (York University).
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CONTENTS
Articles
INSIDE RENAMO                                                            1
      WILLIAM MINTER provides a carefully-researched, detailed
      investigation of the structure, politics and actual operations of
     RENAMO based on his interviews with escapees and FRELJMO-
     held prisoners.
AFRIKAANS LITERATURE: CLASS AND APARTHEID                               28
     In order to progress, argue AMPIE COETZEE, JULIAN F
     SMITH AND HEIN WILLEMSE, Afrikaans literature needs
     to shed its links to apartheid apparatuses and take on issues of
     exploitation and class in serving a new South African society in
    formation.
TRADE UNIONS AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS:
TOWARDS A WORKING ALLIANCE                                              40
    Returning to the debate in previous issues engaged in by Plaut,
     von Holdt and Glaser, EDWIN RITCHKEN re-interprets the
     history of union-community relationships in the 1980s and con-
    siders with some new reference points how they are being restruc-
     tured and how that restructuring can advance further.
MILTON, MARVELL AND 'THE STRUGGLE'                                      54
    In looking at the creation of English literature in South Africa,
     COLIN GARDNER considers the creative tension between
    political engagement and writing in another time and place.


DOCUMENT
INTELLECTUALS, THE WORKING CLASS
AND POLITICS                                                             64
     The question of relations between intellectuals, political organisa-
     tion and political change addressed by Coetzee et al and by
     Gardner, is taken up from a trade union perspective by DAVE
     LEWIS in a keynote address to a recent congress of the Union of
    Democratic University StaffAssociations.
DEBATE
INSIDE WHICH CIRCLE?                                                      70
     JEREMY CRONIN contests Colin Bundy's recent charac-
     terisation of the inapplicability of Colonialism of a Special Type
     theory to South Africa.
Reviews
                                                                          7
      Towards Freehold? by ANNEVAUGHAN                                      9
      Capitalism and Social Democracy by RAPHAEL DE KADT                   86
      War and Society:The Militarisation of South Africa by BILL
                                                                        y2
      FREUND
     Zimbabwe: Politics.Economics and Society by BILL FREUND                95