ABSTRACT
The contours of South Africa's new democracy are now coming into focus. The country's second nonracial national election was held in June 1999, and the African National Congress (ANC) again won a landslide victory by attracting the overwhelming majority of African voters but almost none of the white electorate. Despite the country's history of political violence and turmoil, the election campaign and the voting were conducted in routine, peaceful manners that would have been credits to countries with much longer histories of democracy. Yet, while Africans now have control over almost the entire political apparatus, whites still control the overwhelming share of the economy.
