Southern Africa REPORT

Contents: Editorial: Election Fever • 'Still No Easy Walk' by Hein Marais • The Election Results • How the West Was Won: The Coloured Vote in the Western Cape by David McDonald • Observing the Natal Election • An Empangeni Journal by Linda Slavin • The Natal Exception by Marlea Clarke • "Now for the Hard Part" by John S. Saul • WIP Supplement • Editorial: WIP: R.I.P. by Chris Vick • What's Next? The RDP and After by Hein Marais • Cosatu Approaches a Crossroads by Enoch Godongwana • Constitution Blues • Can the RDP Survive the IMF? By Vishnu Padayachee • That IMF Letter of Intent • South Africa: Another Ghana? by Adebayo Olukoshi • Takes the Government Can't Duck • Women compiled by Mavivi Manzini • Land by Sue Wixley and Brendan Pearce • Environment complied by David Fig • The RDP: Two Reviews • Half Full? ... by Bill Freund • ... Or Half Empty? by John S. Saul • The Renegade Slovo? by Ighsaan Schroeder • Post-apartheid Southern Africa: How Rosy a Dawn? by Colin Stoneman • Zimbabwe Land Reform: What's Goin' On? by Marit Stiles • Otto Roesch 1951 - 1994 • The newsletter discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Nelson Mandela, Rick Salutin, F.W. de Klerk, the National Party (NP), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), KwaZulu/Natal, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, the Freedom Front, the Democratic Party, the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), Tito Mboweni, Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa, Gencor, Derek Keys, Trevor Manuel, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), Jay Naidoo, the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco), the IMF (International Monetary Fund) loans, striking workers, a Bill of Rights, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Mitchell's Plain, squatters, apartheid, Constand Viljoen, the UDF (United Democratic Front),the Cape Flats, Hernus Kriel, Johnson Nxobongwana, Mali Hoza, Shan Jumana, Abe Williams, John Saul, Council housing, "STOP THE COMRADES!", media, racism, the Coon Festival, Saatchi and Saatchi, the African Muslim Party, the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM), Sweden, Mbonglowane, Ulundi police station, Prexy Nesbitt, Ruth First, Mtunzini District, voting stations, the Amatikulu Training Centre, the District Electoral Officer, Mr. Bongani, Manzamnyama School, voters, Mr. Sibusiso, ballots, Empangeni Town Hall, Pallo Jordan, the Carlton Centre, Rooftops Canada), Alexandra township, rural areasl Northwestern Transvaal, Work In Progress (WIP), Khwezi Tiya, the Argus Company, Nasionale Pers, Times Media Limited, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), SACP (South African Communist Party), Jeremy Cronin, the labor movement, Ebrahim Patel, the constitutional court, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), GATT, Balance of Payments, the Trade Union Council of South Africa (Tucsa), unilateral restructuring, workers' rights, a living wage, the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP), Marriages under customary law, maternity leave, the National Land Committee, the Department of Land Affairs, the World Bank, a Land Claims Court, forced removals, land redistribution, the South African Defence Force (SADF), farm labor laws, the Labour Department, the Wage Act, minimum wage, the Land Bank, the Agricultural Credit Board, the Group for Environmental Monitoring (GEM), the Council for the Environment, pollution control, the Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry, pollution, Health and Population Development, the former homelands, National Parks Boards of Trustees, St. Lucia, a Genmin-RTZ consortium, NECC (National Education Crisis Committee), Adam Przeworksi, the private sector, Structural Adjustment, the Macroeconomic Research Group (MERG), the Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union (PPWAWU), the Reserve Bank, the Interim Constitution, the Centre for Southern African Studies at the University of York, the PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging) area, Southern African Development Community (SADC), newly industrialized countries (NICs), Charles Bassett, President Robert Mugabe, the Lancaster House Agreement, Lionel Cliffe, the Land Acquisition Act, Communal Areas, the ZANU (Ndonga) party, Reverend Ndabingigni Sithole, Bernard Chidzero, the Zimbabwean Unity Movement (ZUM), international capital, LONRHO, ZANU (PF), ZANU-PF, ZAPU, the Osborne Dam, Sam Moyo, the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, the Commercial Farmers Union, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Mozambican peasant life, and COCAMO (Cooperation Canada- Mozambique).