Fanie Cloete is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand, P. O. Box 98, Johannesburg, 2050, Republic of South Africa. He is also an advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Dr. Cloete is currently co-editing a book entitledPolicy Options for South Africa in the Nineties.
This article is an abbreviated version of a paper presented at a conference sponsored by the Centre for Policy Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, on 
Perspectives on the Contemporary South African State,
February 27–28, 1989, in Johannesburg, South Africa.