Abstract
South Africa’s transition from apartheid to majority rule has been greeted both domestically and internationally with enormous enthusiasm. Here, in the midst of the mounting conflict, and confusion of the post—Cold War, is an undeniably good news story. And triumph of peaceful negotiations, and democracy over violence and many years of white racist authoritarianism in South Africa. President Mandela said:
The election of April 1994 did not set us free—but we did achieve the freedom to be free. There are new dilemmas in our new democracy, and real problems which our institutions and the media face. There are responsibilities and new challenges. Nevertheless, few would now dispute our newly won right to debate and argue about our response to those challenges. This is one of our country’s real achievements. It is another personal delight for me today to watch how the divisions of the past are giving way to the beginning of a new South African sense of belonging, shared by all3
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African peoples. I hive fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal, which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
—Nelson Mandela1
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See Jerome A. Singh, “Why AIDS in South Africa Threatens Stability and Economic Growth in Other Parts of Africa,” The Lancet, volume 364, No. 9449, 2004, p. 1920.
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Abegunrin, O. (2009). Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Challenges and Dilemmas. In: Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230623903_4
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