Select comments regarding the South Africa Survey:

FOREIGN PAPERS

'Bible to journalists, researchers and anyone with a keen interest in South African society'
- Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

'No better source...indispensable'
- Times Literary Supplement, London

'A must for any foreign South Africa watcher'
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

'Exhaustive...precious resource'
- Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris

'A comprehensive dossier on South Africa'
- Kenya Times, Nairobi

'Invaluable and irreplaceable'
- The Guardian, London

LOCAL PAPERS

'Masterful guide to the state of our nation...
Of world-class quality...Expertly arranged for easy access'
- FinWeek

'Difficult to restrain the superlatives...triumphantly corroborates the Institute's claim to seek the facts and make them known.
Rigorous and objective...unique and invaluable. The premier reference work on South African affairs'
- Cape Times

'A must for visitors, an invaluable companion for journalists.
Should be recommended as a prescribed book in our schools. Trade unions and political parties should have a copy too'
- Sowetan

'Impeccable and impartial. Indispensable in a post-apartheid South African market becoming crowded by imitators and pretenders'
- City Press

'Our best researched compendium of statistics'
- Mail and Guardian

'Essential research material...widely respected across the world'
- Financial Mail

'The most important statistical and political record published annually. An impartial document recording only the facts without passing
any judgement, making it indispensable for reference work'
- Pretoria News

'Meticulous...indispensable'
- Sunday Times

'Wealth of rare facts, figures. Impossible to understand South Africa without it...an instant political education...
A required reference for researchers and legislators'
- Business Day

'Succeeds brilliantly. Nothing but dispassionate and objective facts...nothing to beat it'
- The Star

'Has grown to international almanac proportions and now covers everything from security to business...
A priceless reference...As a fact file of South African life it is without peer'
- Argus

'This old stalwart is as evergreen as ever. With its meticulous table of contents and index, it is extremely easy to use.
It remains the best general source of South African statistics in one volume. Every public and high school library should have one'
- Daily Dispatch

'Once again indispensable for basic information, made more accessible by an extended index'
- Die Burger