oa Alternation - South Africa Passes the Posts

Abstract

In 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unmourned demise of orthodox Communism in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R., the Nationalist Party Government in South Africa announced the unbanning of the ANC and PAC, initiating a process of reform which soon outstripped their control. Painstakingly, and not without much conflict, the process of gestation of a 'new South Africa' toward a more inclusive, democratic, polity began: a framework which allows all of its citizens access to voting rights and at least the possibility of economic and social advancement.