This survey encapsulates papers prepared by the Democracy and Governance Research Program of the Human Sciences Research Council on a range of critical governance issues facing the postapartheid state as the countrynbsp;attempts to deepen democracy and to deliver basic services to the electorate. Based on research conducted as part of the government’s 15-year review of governance and administration, the papers focus on three issues: public sector anticorruption, local government restructuring and capacity, and the role of traditional leadership in postapartheid governance.