Overcoming difficult challenges : bolstering good governance / Robert I. Rotberg -- South Africa's key challenges : tough choices and new directions / Ann Bernstein -- Democracy at risk? Politics and governance under the ANC / Roger Southall -- Social and political implications of demographic change in post-Apartheid South Africa / Jeremy Seekings -- Meeting the challenge of unemployment? / Nicoli Nattrass -- Plight of women and children : advancing South Africa's least privileged / Carol Bower -- Post-1994 South African education : the challenge of social justice / Saleem Badat and Yusuf Sayed -- Developing possibilities for South African youth : beyond limited educational choices? / Andrew Babson -- South Africa's key health challenges / Alan Whiteside -- Curbing the killing fields : making South Africa safer / Elrena van der Spuy and Clifford Shearing -- Accountability and the media / Anton Harber -- South Africa and Africa / Chris Saunders -- Need for strengthened political leadership / Robert I. Rotberg.