Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African
National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free
national election in the country's history. That definitive and
peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for
others to follow. The new order has since survived several
transitions of ANC leadership, and it averted a potentially
destabilizing constitutional crisis in 2008. Yet enormous
challenges remain. Poverty and inequality are among the highest in
the world. Staggering unemployment has fueled xenophobia, resulting
in deadly aggression directed at refugees and migrant workers from
Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Violent crime rates, particularly murder
and rape, remain grotesquely high. The HIV/AIDS pandemic was
shockingly mishandled at the highest levels of government, and
infection rates continue to be overwhelming. Despite the country's
uplifting success of hosting Africa's first World Cup in 2010,
inefficiency and corruption remain rife, infrastructure and basic
services are often semifunctional, and political opposition and a
free media are under pressure.
In this volume, major scholars chronicle South Africa's
achievements and challenges since the transition. The
contributions, all previously unpublished, represent the state of
the art in the study of South African politics, economics, law, and
social policy.
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