ABSTRACT
Capitalism has historically denned and continues to define the quintessential contours of South Africa's political economy. As the apartheid edifice began to crumble because of sociopolitical pressures building through wide-scale Black discontent and global repudiation of apartheid from many socialist-bloc and underdeveloped nations, capital was perspicacious. The visible result was the dramatic unfolding of the South African political drama as seen at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park, close to Johannesburg International Airport. The apartheid regime was highly successful in this effort of co-optation, owing to its skillful, diplomatic, and adept maneuvering, in which leaders of the liberation movements were so overawed with the prospect of sitting in the same corporate boardrooms and parliamentary chambers as their previous apartheid oppressors that they were willing to overlook critical issues directed toward the transfer of political and economic power to the Black majority.
