Submitted: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:52:07 GMT+0200 Dr. Fred Hendricks Head, Department of Sociology Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa phone: 27 (046) 603 8361/2 fax: 27 (046) 6225570 e-mail: scfh@warthog.ru.ac.za Managing Editor, African Sociological Review