Introduction The politics of stalemate / Mark Swilling -- A critical analysis of the South African state's reform strategies in the 1980s / William Cobbett ... [et al.] -- The giant stirs : South African business in the age of reform / Michael Mann -- The crisis of local government in South Africa / Jeremy Grest -- Intensifying civil war : the role of the South African defence force / Michael Evans and Mark Phillips -- The wild card : Inkatha and contemporary black politics / Colleen McCaul -- The rise of social-movement unionionism : the two faces of the black trade movement in South Africa / Eddie Webster -- Political mobilisation in the black townships of the Transvaal / Jeremy Seekings -- State of exile : the African National Congress of South Africa, 1976-86 / Tom Lodge -- Images of the future and strategies in the present : the Freedom Charter and the South African left / Peter Hudson -- Beyond apartheid : pathways for transition / Philip Frankel -- Select bibliography on South Africa / Noam J. Pines