South Africa

The Republic of South Africa's first truly representative, multiracial government, established in May 1994, represented a political watershed for the nation and the continent. The country adopted a new constitution, effective February 4, 1997, that centralized power across national, provincial, and local lines. The emergence of South Africa as a multiracial country marked the end of the country's 10 "homelands" set up under the former apartheid government to isolate the black...