ABSTRACT
The year 2010 marks the passage of twenty years since the formal capitulation of the apartheid regime. Regardless of what the limits to structural change that the negotiated political transition process and the current form of democracy may be, the defeat of apartheid was and remains a moral victory. Legal apartheid was ended because of many decades of struggle, rebellion, direct action, and vocal dissent, solidarity on the continent, the Diaspora and elsewhere, and international pressure. Apartheid was ended through the continuing and tireless efforts of generations of ordinary people for which the human cost is yet to be accounted.
