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33 Stan. J. Int'l L. 375 (1997)
The Negotiated Revolution: South Africa's Transition to a Multiracial Democracy

handle is hein.journals/stanit33 and id is 385 raw text is: Note The Negotiated Revolution: South Africa's Transition to a Multiracial Democracy PETER N. BOUCKAERT* I. INTRODUCTION South Africa's transition from a security state based on racial domi- nance into a vibrant multiracial democracy undoubtedly ranks as one of the greatest political achievements of this century. In just a decade, the country was able to end four centuries of conflict which had turned it into a pariah state, and become a model of national reconciliation. Compared to other transitions from white settler rule in countries such as Algeria' and Zimbabwe,2 the transition in South Africa is remarkable for the relatively peaceful manner by which it achieved national recon- ciliation. This Note will explore the events which led to South Africa's transi- tion, focusing on the strategy of the African National Congress (ANC) during the negotiations. It will first highlight some lessons from the * J.D. Candidate, 1997, Stanford Law School. Graduate Fellow, Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. I would like to thank Melanie Greenberg, Jonathan Greenberg, and Lourens du Plessis for their helpful comments. Additional thanks are due Tini Duong and Sara Gross Methner for their fine editing. 1 See, e.g., FRANTZ FANON, THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1963) (advocating, inter alia, the use of violence in the struggle against French colonialism in Algeria); ALASTAIR HORNE, A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA, 1954-1962 (1977) (a history of the Algerian liberation struggle against French colonialism); WILLIAM B. QUANDT, REVOLUTION AND POLlTICAL LEADERSHIP: ALGERIA, 1954-1968 (1969) (a study of the ideology of the revolutionary elite who led Algeria's war of national liberation). See e.g., PETER GODWIN & IAN HANCOCK, RHODESIANS NEVER DIE (1993) (chronicling the end of white rule in Rhodesia); PETER GODWIN, MUKIWA: A WHITE BOY IN AFRICA (1996) (a memoir on Rhodesia's collapse as a British colony); BRUCE MOORE-KING, WHITE MAN, BLACK WAR (1988) (a white Rhodesian soldier's account of Zimbabwe's war of liberation); STEPHEN J. STEDMAN, PEACEMAKING IN CIVIL WAR: INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION IN ZIMBABWE, 1974-1980 (1991) (documenting the international mediation efforts which helped end the Rhodesian con- flict). 375 33 STAN.J. INT'L L. 375 (1997)

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