New South African Review 5

Gilbert M Khadiagala is the Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Devan Pillay is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Roger Southall is the Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Prishani Naidoo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Gilbert M Khadiagala is the Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the university of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall are all based at the Department of Sociology at Wits.

• New political directions?: Post-Marikana Reconstituting and Re-imagining the Left: Prospects and Challenges; Labour and Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa; The Numsa Moments and the Prospects of Left Re-vitalisation in South Africa. Economy, ecology and labour: The South African Economy; Between a Rock and a Hard Place: State-business Relations in the South African Mining Sector; From Wiehahn to Marikana: The Platinum Belt Strike Wave and the Breakdown in Institutionalisation of Industrial Conflict; Pulling a Rabbit from the Proverbial Hat: Dealing with Johannesburg's Slow Onset Uranium Disaster. The state and society: Constitutionalism in South Africa: An 'Unqualified Human Good'?; People's Parliament? Do Citizens Influence South Africa's Legislatures?; Corruption in South Africa: Perceptions and Trends; Groundhog Day? Public Order Policing Twenty Years into Democracy; 'In December We Are Rich, in January We Are Poor': Consumption, Saving, Stealing and Insecurity in the Kasi. SA in the international arena: The Evolution of South Africa's Foreign Policy: A Thematic Essay; South Africa, the BRICS and Human Rights: In Bad Company?; Trading with the Frienemy: How South Africa Depends on African Trade.