South Africa -- What the Election Meant

South Africans presented the world with a political miracle in the first all-race election ever held in that country. The event followed forty years of apartheid and five years of intense political debate. South African scholar Stephen R. Clingman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, analyzes the past and speculates on the future of this extraordinary transformation.

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