in Affirmative Action in a New South Africa: The Apartheid Legacy and Comparative International Experiences and Mechanisms of Enforcement, Cape Town: Centre for Development Studies, University of Western Cape Town (1992), pp. 13-23.
Abstract
The following is a schematic presentation of the choices involved in constructing an afRrmative action programme, indicating some of the major problems and trade-offs that accompany certain choices or combinations of choices. Obviously this kind of schematic treatment, abstracting from the complexities, conflicts and passions of real social settings, embalms the subject. But the goal of this exercise is not to convey the full complexity of the real world, but to simplify it so that we can see what might otherwise be obscured. It is an X- ray, not a portrait.
