South Africa's Geopolitical Position After Mandela

by Immanuel Wallerstein | Toward Freedom | Click HERE to read article

In many ways, South Africa is a tinderbox, waiting to explode. Yet, on the positive side, it has the world’s most progressive constitution (providing of course that its provisions are respected). It still enjoys one of the most lively and open arenas of political debate. And it has an impressive number of bottom-up social movements.