Post Apartheid South Africa Turns 20

Gwynne Dyer, New Zealand Herald | February 24, 2010

For its 20th birthday, post-apartheid South Africa has little to celebrate. ++ SA is doing better than anticipated, but expectations were very low. ++ The country has some of the highest murder and AIDS rates in the world as well as one of the world’s worst education systems. ++ A high unemployment rate and a widening gap between the white and the black populations also prevent the country from moving forward. ++ “The country is becoming a two-tier society with a hereditary underclass that gets only the crumbs from the table.”