South African Ambassador N.M. Mashabane: Democracy is a bread and butter issue
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
A DECADE ago, South Africa celebrated the end of apartheid or white minority rule. The transition to democracy has not been easy. There is still acute poverty, unemployment, a terrifying crime rate and a menacing AIDS problem. But three free and fair and peaceful elections attest to the peoples determination not just to survive, but to make the new South Africa succeed. Under President Nelson Mandela, and then President Thabo Mbeki, whose African
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