ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the economic and social development case in South Africa since the end of Apartheid from the legal and institutional perspectives. As in Chapter 4, the analysis adopts the general theory of law and development and also makes comparisons to the development approaches taken by Korea during its development period. These two countries faced substantially different development outcomes: in the early 1960s, Korea started at a much lower economic point than South Africa, as demonstrated by its gross national income (GNI) per capita equivalent to only 27 percent of that of South Africa at that time. Korea, unlike resource-rich South Africa, had a poor endowment of natural resources, had barely recovered from the devastating Korean War, lacked technology and capital, and was under constant security threat from North Korea. South Africa did not have these adverse conditions but had to deal with other obstacles not faced by Korea, such as diverse racial groups with a history of violent confrontations and the negative legacy of Apartheid, which deeply divided the nation for several decades. Despite these differences, the comparative analysis will help to identify the causes of the difference in development trajectory between the two countries.
