These essays offer a vantage point for understanding the present in South Africa and for surveying the future of the region. The African specialists who contribute to this work examine various dimensions of apartheid society - politics, the economy, the legal system, and labour.

As apartheid collapses in South Africa, the structures established under apartheid deeply affect the emerging new social order. These essays provide a vantage point for understanding the present in South Africa and for surveying the future of the region. Most of the papers were presented as part of the Carter Lectures on Africa at the University of Florida and have been revised and updated for publication. The African specialists who contribute to this work examine various dimensions of apartheid society - politics, the economy, the legal system, and labour. They place the internal crisis that South Africa now faces within a wide regional context and analyze the new system now faces within a wide regional context and analyze the new system of interstate relations emerging within the region. At the core of the book is the understanding that, even when dead and buried, apartheid will cast a long shadow on the future.

"Introduction - Apartheid Unravels", R. Hunt Davis, Jr
"South African Security Law and the Growth of Local and Regional Violence", A.S. Mathews
"White Politics in Transition - Multidimensional Uncertainty", Kenneth W. Grundy
"Between the Hammer and the Anvil - the Quandary of Liberalism in South Africa", C.J. Driver
"Racial Proletarianization and Some Contemporary Dimensions of Black Consciousness Thought", C.R.D. Hallisi
"Democratizing the United Democratic Front - The Muddy Stone", Karl S. Beck
"Worker Solidarity, Differentiation, and the Manipulation of Ethnicity - Conflict at Vaal Reefs, 1984-1986", Robert Shanafelt
"Decolonization in Southern Africa and the Labour Crisis in South Africa - Modernizing Migrant Labour Policies", Pearl-Alice Marsh
"South Africa and SADCC - Economics of the Southern African Region", James Cobbe
"Conflict in Southern Africa - The Case of Mozambique", Allen F. Asaacman
"South Africa's Contradictory Regional Goals", Patrick O'Meara.