Will South Africa's New President Lead His Country Down Right Path?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › April 02, 2010
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For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was ignored by the West because it lacked the strategic significance of Asia or Latin America. As it emerged from colonial rule, it became a region of often dysfunctional, bad governments; corrupt bureaucracies; savage tribal warfare; and declining, AIDS-racked populations.
There was one major exception: South Africa. South Africa had its own special problems. It was rich with deposits of gold and diamonds. It had a minority, but substantial, white population that had established an extensive infrastructure of roads, railways and factories, while building up cities and orderly government. But it also had a majority black African population repressed by the apartheid system.See the full content of this document
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Will South Africa's New President Lead His Country Down Right Path?
Enter Nelson Mandela. Mandela led the anti-apartheid African National Congress, which the white government banned. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent 27 years in...
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