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With the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa began to open up more trade with the rest of the world. But the rest of the world didn't care much for South African wines, made in old-fashioned ...
“I’m worried that even if change comes to South Africa, this place will not change. It’s a forgotten place.” No one seriously believes Bophuthatswana could go it alone for long.
He explains that in South Africa, forgiveness was critical. The black majority there kept much of the Afrikaaner government in place and reassured white South Africans they would have a place in ...
Orlando East, a working class community on the periphery of Johannesburg in South Africa, has turned 90 years old. Orlando was one of the first municipal locations – called townships under apartheid – ...
In The Wall Street Journal, Robert I. Rotberg writes that the post-Mandela era has been marked by corruption, crime and too few jobs. Elections in May offer hope.