Ebrahim Fakir Editor

Ebrahim Fakir is currently Manager of Governance Institutions and Processes at the Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA). He is also Research Associate of the African Legislatures Project at the University of Cape Town's Centre for Social Science Research and was formerly Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg (2003-2009), and at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) (1998-2003). He writes on politics, the state, governance, democracy and development and is used as an analyst, commentator and facilitator by the national and international media, business and other organisations. He read for a degree in English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where he was elected on to the Student Representative Council; and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Tom Lodge is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick. Before his arrival in Limerick in 2005 he was Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has also held positions at the University of York, the Social Science Research Council in New York, and the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa. In 1999-2000 he was Chair of the Africa Institute in Pretoria and between 2004 and 2005 he served on the Research Assessment Executive Evaluation Committee of the National Research Foundation in Pretoria. He is the author of seven books and two edited volumes. They include Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (Longman, 1993 - a new edition due for re-release by Jacana in February 2013) and Politics in South Africa From Mandela to Mbeki (University of Indiana Press, 2002), Nelson Mandela: A Critical Life (OUP, 2006) and Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences (OUP, 2011). His publications also include 60 journal articles and chapters in edited collections.