Building a Democracy: A Decade After Apartheid. Priya Abraham.
by Abraham, Priya; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 71Global Issues. Publisher: World Magazine, 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Apartheid | Democracy -- South Africa | Mandela, Nelson | South Africa -- Politics and government | South Africa -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president, he stood on a podium encased in bulletproof glass. The white-haired freedom fighter had just succeeded in tearing down the country's racist apartheid system and needed protection as he brought the country out of a past not so different from the terrorist present in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East." (WORLD MAGAZINE) This article describes how the end of apartheid has affected the social and political life in South Africa and how it serves as an example for other "democracy-builders in today's terror-torn lands."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Building a Democracy: A Decade After Apartheid, April 17, 2004; pp. 22+.
"When Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president, he stood on a podium encased in bulletproof glass. The white-haired freedom fighter had just succeeded in tearing down the country's racist apartheid system and needed protection as he brought the country out of a past not so different from the terrorist present in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East." (WORLD MAGAZINE) This article describes how the end of apartheid has affected the social and political life in South Africa and how it serves as an example for other "democracy-builders in today's terror-torn lands."
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