Alec Russell – After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa

In the early 1990s, the African National Congress, led by Nelson Mandela, engaged in a historic and peaceful transition to power in South Africa. For some, the story of South Africa ended with that moment – the victory of the ANC over the bitter injustice of the apartheid regime, and Mandela’s astonishing mission of reconciliation.

Yet while the economy has grown steadily, as has a fledgling middle class, and black South Africans have attained positions of great wealth and power, rampant inequality still remains. Violence is endemic in the townships and in the major cities. Race relations are fraught as whites struggle to find their place in the new order. President Thabo Mbeki’s denial of the the AIDS Epidemic ebook pdf mobi epub" style="text-decoration: underline">AIDS epidemic has led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths and been morally and politically disastrous. Mbeki’s failure to check the abuses of Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship in Zimbabwe has tarnished South Africa’s reputation abroad and baffled Mbeki’s former friends.   źródło opisu: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0091926017 źródło okładki: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0091926017