South Africa at 20 years free

Published February 17, 2010

We astounded the world in 1990 and in 1994, and we shall do so again," wrote former South African president FW de Klerk on the 20^th anniversary of the day in February 1990 when he announced the end of the apartheid system. But in 1990 and in 1994, the astonishment was about the fact that disaster had been avoided, and even now it is not astonishment at the country's success.

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