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The president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, had just been reelected in elections marking the 10th anniversary of democracy in South Africa and the end of apartheid. The apartheid regime treated the majority ethnic groups of South Africans poorly, sometimes brutally. Despite this history of brutality, the turnover of political power to majority rule has been relatively peaceful. This is an extraordinary accomplishment given that political revolutions under similar circumstances in other parts of the world are very often accompanied by violence as brutal as the regime being replaced. How did South Africa avoid a political mess?

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(Main content: 7/4/2004.  Page made: 4/21/2016.)