ABSTRACT
By the beginning of 1995 South Africa’s new Government of National Unity, eight months old, was in full operation. In the Western Cape (the only province where the National Party secured political dominance), the Economic Development Forum was busy transforming itself into a Provincial Advisory Council. Its various commissions, including the Urban Development Commission, had ceased to function. The Regional Services Council had been renamed the Cape Metropolitan Council. A new set of ‘pre-interim’ metropolitan councillors was in place but, as in the previous period, the majority of these were National Party members. The contingent of officials was largely unchanged.
