The New South Africa: Problems of Reconstruction

Issue Date January 1996
Volume 7
Issue 1
Page Numbers 82-95
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About the Author

Charles Simkins is vice-president and professor of economics at St. Augustine College in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before that, he held the Helen Suzman Chair in Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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