Published under the title “Rituals and realities”, in: Leadership South Africa, vol. 7, no. 3, 1988, pp. 19 - 22.

Re the uncertainty of imposing a time-frame on the duration, and the futility of predicting the outcome of the transition in South Africa.

Article regarding the negotiation of democracy in South Africa. Reworked version of article later published as “Can democracy be negotiated in SA?” in: F. van Zyl Slabbert; Dene Smuts. The system and the struggle: reform, ...

Article regarding the struggle for a non-racial democratic South Africa. Version of article published as “The conflict deepens: Strategic Dilemmas”, in: The system and the struggle: reform, revolt and reaction in South ...

Lead sentence: “There are frequent flashes of irritation from various quarters involved in the dynamics of transition in South Africa”.

Published as: “The challenge of institution-building in the transition to democracy”, in: Democratic nation-building in South Africa / editors, Nic Rhoodie, Ian Liebenberg. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, 1994, pp. 449 - 454.

The legitimacy of transition at the Local Government level.

Transitional terminological tribulations.

Overview of the state of the nation at the current time; the pre-negotiation phase of politics; criticizes the government’s efforts to popularize the benefits of reform above the disadvantages of revolt by inducing “moderate” ...

The sanitization of security from violence and partisan abuse is a prerequisite for negotiating democracy during transition.