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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 6 - First Quarter 1997
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 17 Feb 1997
The South African electorate at mid-term: The Helen Suzman Foundation commissioned a national opinion survey in October 1996. Black youth and the new democracy: What do young black people think about the new South Africa?
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Focus 5 - Fourth Quarter 1996
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 30 Nov 1996
Talking sense about university transformation: A somewhat uneasy consensus exists on most university campuses that something called "transformation" has to occur. All our futures: The new schools Act: The South African Schools Act (1996) fulfills the dreams of generations of anti-apartheid activists.
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Focus 4 - Third Quarter 1996
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 29 Aug 1996
The best and worst of times: South Africa's government at half-term: "Things have never been as good as they are now, but could also been seen as sliding towards catastrophe." Managing democracy: The problematic birth of the electoral commission: In 1993 the management of South Africa's first democratic elections was taken away from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Focus 3 - Second Quarter 1996
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 12 May 1996
South Africa's foreign policy: Human rights and national interests: All South Africans had cause to feel proud of the way in which Mandela led the response to the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa. North of South: At the time of independence, Zimbabwe had zero debt. By June 1996 debts totaled 130% of GDP.
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Focus 2 - First Quarter 1996
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 02 Feb 1996
The unresolved mess over spying: The rash of reports over "spying" has not eventuated in the promised judicial commission. Zimbabwe: Democracy under threat: A series of constitutional amendments indicate that minimum standards for a free and fair election are unlikely to be met.
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Focus 1 - Fourth Quarter 1995
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 26 Nov 1995
Building the one-party state? The strange case of the Non-Profit Organisations Bill: The new "NGO Bill" gives the Government frighteningly interventionist powers over the non-governmental sector. Interview with Bill Johnson, director of The Helen Suzman Foundation: "I voted Labour more often than anything else but latterly I tended to vote Liberal."
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