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652 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2014)

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The end of apartheid, the empowering of
majority politicians and political move-
ments, the return to South Africa of the African
National Congress, and Nelson Mandela's
assumption of the reborn nation's leadership
heralded a sociological, economic, and political
upheaval that was assumed at the time to be
sustainably transformational. The new dawn
suggested by the Freedom Charter and the
long struggle for individual human rights had
seemingly arrived, and, despite a number of
recognizable challenges, Mandela and his close
associates, as well as the general public that had
been waiting decades for a release from oppres-
sion, expected that South Africa's future would
be positive, progressive, and fruitful. But as the
articles in this volume explain, there is much
still to be accomplished to realize the lofty
transformational objectives of the 1990s.
Twenty years into South Africa's transition,
Mandela's iconic legacy has been seriously
abraded, and many of the corrosive challenges
that confronted his new government and the
new nation in 1994 remain seemingly intracta-
ble. As President Jacob Zuma's regime tries to
satisfy the major needs of South Africans in
2014 and beyond, his people hope, somehow,
that they can recover the promises of renewal
and revitalization that were central to the final
realization of majority rule.
Mandela's passing, as this volume was in
press, makes recovering the promise of renewal
Robert I. Rotberg is the founding director of the
Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy
School; president emeritus of the World Peace
Foundation; fellow of the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences; Fulbright Professor at both the Paterson
School of International Affairs (Carleton University)
and the Balsillie School of International Affairs
(University of Waterloo); and senior fellow of the
Centre for International Governance Innovation. His
most recent book is Africa Emerges: Consummate
Challenges, Abundant Opportunities (Polity 2013).
DOI: 10.1177/0002716213514197

ANNALS, AAPSS, 652, March 2014

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