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Beyond the Miracle - Inside the New South Africa (Paperback, New edition)
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Beyond the Miracle - Inside the New South Africa (Paperback, New edition)
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In "Beyond the Miracle," a distinguished South African journalist
provides a wide-ranging and unflinching account of the first nine
years of democratic government in South Africa. Covering both the
new regime's proud achievements and its disappointing failures,
Allister Sparks looks to South Africa's future, asking whether it
can overcome its history and current global trends to create a
truly nonracial, multicultural, and multiparty democracy.
Sparks sees South Africa as facing many of the same challenges as
the rest of the world, especially a widening gap between rich and
poor, exacerbated by the forces of globalization. While the
transition government has done much to establish democracy and
racial equality in a short time, as well as bring basic services
such as clean water to millions who did not have them before, many
blacks feel it has not done enough to redress the continuing
imbalance of wealth in the country. Many whites, meanwhile, feel
disempowered and confused about what role they have to play as a
racial minority in a country they used to rule and regard as theirs
by divine right. Sparks also covers other burning issues, such as
the HIV/AIDS epidemic, high crime rates, the diamond wars, the
Congo conflict, and the Zimbabwean land crisis.
Writing vividly and often quite movingly, Sparks draws on his
decades of journalistic experience and his recent insider access to
key figures in the liberation government to take stock of where
South Africa has been, where it's going, and why the rest of the
world should not turn away from this country where the First and
Third Worlds meet. As Sparks persuasively argues, the success of
Mandela's vision of a peaceful "rainbownation" is crucial not just
for the salvation of Africa, but also for the world.
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