ABSTRACT
With the end of the cold war in the 1980s and global uncertainty into the future, dangers of civil war in parts of the former Soviet Union and wars in Africa, one event came to international attention in the transitions in world power-the social and political transition in South Africa. The release of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) leader, the unbanning of political parties, and the start of multiparty talks and the emergence of a “new” South Africa was one of the major events of the last century. This process culminated in the transition from the restrictive and oppressive apartheid system, which denied citizenship rights to black South Africans, to a democratic system on the bases of equal rights for every South African irrespective of race.
