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There are thousands of Mvezos in South Africa, hundreds of Mthathas and hundreds of big city townships too. In 2006, the South African Institute of Race Relations estimated 4.2 million South Africans were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996. In its 2009 election manifesto, even the ANC admits inequality has increased. "There are a handful of extremely wealthy people whose lives have changed dramatically," Suzman told Time before she died. "But the vast majority has been left behind. And there is a very clear link between that nondelivery and the violence and protests...
...violence is an increasing international concern as the 2010 soccer World Cup draws near. But first there is the election, and as that approaches, many South Africans are weighing a suspicion that the ANC hasn't delivered on all its past promises because the party hasn't been made to. Granting the ANC a hefty majority - it won 66% of the vote in the last general election - obviated its need to perform: instead of focusing outwards on improving the living standards of the country, it focused inwards on improving its own. That hasn't gone unnoticed, and notwithstanding Zuma...
...there to serve the people, and not the other way around. In addition, a weakening of the ANC and a strengthening of the opposition would help redress the one-party domination that has hitherto undermined Africa's proudest democracy. Lekota says that this election may be the "maturing" of South Africa's democracy...
...South Africa can take comfort from the knowledge that even its greatest leader had trouble making the transition from revolutionary to democrat. In office, Mandela expressed admiration for autocrats like Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and in his farewell speech to the ANC party conference in 1997 claimed South Africa's violent crime was part of a "counter-revolution" engineered by pro-apartheid whites "to render the country ungovernable." But in retirement, Mandela rediscovered his inner democrat, speaking out against tyranny, wherever he found it - even in his own party. In March 2007, at the funeral of Adelaide Tambo, wife...
...pictures of South Africa in the run-up to the election...