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Focus

Focus is the journal of the HSF. It is used as a forum for public debate and adds new, fresh voices to the policy dialogue. Focus consists of articles and book reviews by academics, public intellectuals, researchers, and policy experts. Focus is published in digital form and is made available for free here on the HSF website.
Focus 14 - 2nd Quarter 1999
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 14 May 1999
We cannot afford another five years like the last: Editorial. Count us out: The number of potential voters has been revised to make registration figures look better.
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Focus 13 - 1st Quarter 1999
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 08 Feb 1999
African renaissance depends on rule of law and human rights: Mbeki should condemn Mugabe's attack on the free press, denounce the use of torture and call for respect for the rule of law. How many people will be able to vote?: The prospects of a smoothly-run election will not be good if large numbers of potential voters find that they are excluded.
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Focus 12 - 4th Quarter 1998
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 29 Nov 1998
More power for the ANC alliance will not help create employment: The overwhelming issue facing the electorate is unemployment. Interview: Mohlolo Kgopane, general secretary of the Malamulela Movement for the Unemployed. "The unemployed have been increasingly marginalised in society. We have embarked on a campaign to mobilise them."
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Focus 11 - 3rd Quarter 1998
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 15 Aug 1998
South Africa needs a strong opposition: ANC supporters, so used to being up against the apartheid state, find worrying about a counterweight to the ANC absurd. The future shape of South African politics: Hermann Giliomee and Charles Simkins discuss the tension that exists between dominant-party rule and democracy.
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Focus 10 - Second Quarter 1998
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 12 May 1998
Crime, Aids and unemployment point to an ineffective state: Editorial. Highway patrols: With improved intelligence, police are claiming a breakthrough in stemming the spate of dramatic cash-in-transit heists.
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Focus 9 - First Quarter 1998
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 14 Feb 1998
The ANC is unclear about whether it wants revolution or reconciliation: President Mandela's speech at Mafikeng was regarded as both paranoid and menacing to the cause of democracy. Questions about Winnie: Was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela deceived and trapped by apartheid’s notorious security police?
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Focus 8 - Third Quarter 1997
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 29 Aug 1997
The truth about the Xhosa Nostra: Largely because of the early spread of missionary activity in the Eastern Cape, Xhosa-speakers gained an advantage. At the rainbow's end: With its fairytale connotations, the idea of the rainbow nation was perhaps always too good to be true.
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Focus 7 - Second Quarter 1997
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 16 May 1997
Parties, issues and political fragmentation: Part two of the national opinion survey suggests a complex reality that creates problems for the ANC and the opposition. The Helen Suzman Foundation and the SABC: A bizarre story of media bias.
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