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This issue features: Zimbabwe, Pretoria’s new African dilemma
 
         
 
         
ZIMBABWE
PRETORIA'S NEW AFRICAN DILEMMA

PATRICK BOND asks why South Africa has not taken a stronger hand in Zimbabwe.
  THE MATRIC EXAMINATIONS TOOLS FOR ANALYSING PERFORMANCE
ANDREW PATERSON and MARIETTE VISSER have constructed an index which tracks changes in the performance of schools and identifies school districts that require special intervention to improve performance.
 
         
  THE TRIPARTATE ALLIANCE
IS IT FALLING APART?

The alliance between the ANC, Cosatu and the SACP has come under renewed strain recently. RAYMOND SUTTNER concludes that the end is not in sight yet.
 
 
         
  REMAKING THE PRESIDENCY
CO-ORDINATION VS CENTRALISATION

Sean Jacobs warns that centralising power in the President’s office could presage an ‘imperial presidency’.
  SOCIAL SECURITY
THE FIRST CALL FOR CHILDREN

Social assistance is one way of improving the situation of poverty-stricken children. TERESA GUTHRIE and SHIRIN MOTALA suggest ways of improving the current system.
 
         
  STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY
REDEFINING THE RULES

Civil society organisations are in danger of being turned into mere welfare providers, writes KRISTA JOHNSON.
 
 
 
  'BREAK THE SILENCE'
HARNESSING ART TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS

The South Africa art world remains inaccessible to the majority of people. SABINE MARSCHALL describes a project which is attempting to break down these barriers.
 
   
 
       
       

THE ARGENTINE CRISIS
LESSONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

At face value, South Africa and Argentina have little in common. COLM ALLAN unravels the reasons why investors abandoned the Rand after Argentina’s political collapse.

       
 
 
 
       
  THE 2002/2003 BUDGET
NOT SO SWEET

FAIRSHARE concludes that the latest Budget offers very few fruits to the poor.
   
       
  ECONOMIC GROWTH
WHO PROFITS?

GOOLAM BALLIM finds that business is the main beneficiary of economic growth.
   
       
  ABOUT TURN
THE ANC & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

In spite of support from the ANC, South Africa’s black capitalist class is struggling to secure its place in the sun. SEAN JACOBS reports.
   
       
 
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