Introduction

Increased levels of violence and unrest in South Africa over the past eighteen months have focused world attention on South Africa as never before. Both domestic and international pressures have mounted for the reform or the complete dismantling of the apartheid system. The unbridgeable gap between the aspirations of the majority and the limited reforms offered by the National Party government has created such a volatile situation in South Africa that it is impossible to predict what will happen over the coming months and years. It is even less possible to anticipate the eventual outcome with any certainty