Reconstituting South Africa

Issue Date Summer 1991
Volume 2
Issue 3
Page Numbers 107-11
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A review of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, by Donald L. Horowitz.

About the Author

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, a former member of the South African Parliament and leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is director of planning and policy for the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA).

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