In the run up to South Africa three national elections both academia and the media advocated that electoral behaviour would be informed by the race census thesis. This article challenges this dominant thesis by using evidence from post-apartheid South Africa's three general elections which suggests that the racial census thesis is not the only factor that determine...

Leading and managing any university is a challenging task in the 21st century, but undertaking this responsibility in a developing world context like South Africa, where the managerial and strategic challenges tend to be more acute, is an even more onerous one. Although there have been significant changes and massive state intervention in the last 20 years, South A...