| Editorial | iii |
| Monographs |
| Anthropology
and Independent African: Suicide or End of an Era?
Archie Mafeje | 1 |
| Reponses to Mafeje |
| A
Critical Review of 'Anthropology and Independent African: Suicide or End of an Era?' by Archie Mafeje
Rosabelle Laville | 44 |
| Archie Mafeje's Prescription for the Academic Future
Sally Falk Moore | 50 |
| The Status of Anthropology in Post-Independence Africa: Some Reflections on Archie Mafeje's Perceptions
Paul Nchoji Nkwi | 57 |
| Who Speaks for Whom? A Response to Archie Mafeje's, 'Anthropology and Independent Africans: Suicide or End of an Era?'
John Sharp | 66 |
| For a New Theory and Practice: Mafeje's 'Anthropology and Independent African: Suicide or End of an Era?'
Herbert W. Vilakazi | 74 |
| Articles |
| Between
Corporatism and Neo-liberalism? Collective Bargaining in South Africa's New Labour Relations Act
Gilton Klerck | 85 |
| Focus Groups: A South African Experience and a Methodological Reflection
Ian Macun and Deborah Posel | 114 |
| Social Research and Public Policy in Nigeria
Lai Olurode | 136 |
| Research Report |
| Rural Local
Government in Post-apartheid South Africa
Lungisile Ntsebeza | 153 |
| Debates |
| The
Structure of Urban Black Households; New Survey Evidence From a Coloured and an African Community on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape of South Africa: A Comment on Amoateng's Methods and Findings
A Comment by Paul Maylam | 165 |
| Black Urban Households in South Africa
Margo Russell | 174 |
| Book Reviews |
| Nomthetho
Simelane (ed.). Social Transformation - The Swaziland Case
Reviewed by Kuseni Dlamini | 181 |
| Ivan Evans. Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1997
Reviewed by Johann Graaff | 183 |
| Don Pinnock with Dudu Douglas-Hamilton. Gangs, Rituals and Rites of Passage. Cape Town. African Sun Press with The Institute
of Criminology. University of Cape Town. 1997
Reviewed by Elrena van der Spuy | 189 |
| Mahmood Mamdani (ed.). Uganda: Studies in Labour. Dakar. CODESRIA. 1996
Reviewed by Tadesse Zerihun | 193 |