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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 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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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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