![]() ![]() ![]() Income disparities between managers and workers were and remain higher than Brazil. Under apartheid, over 80% of the land was held by 13% of the population and 80% of the Johannesburg stock exchange was controlled by five companies. ![]() The struggle for decent jobs, housing, and education now enters a new phase. The enormous burdens on family life posed by the “migrant”labor system are beginning to end as all blacks can now legally live in urban areas. No longer is it a crime for black South Africans to live outside a township or a “homeland.”The infamous pass system has been abolished. Even before Nelson Mandela assumed the presidency, “petty apartheid”(segregated neighborhoods, schools, pools, etcetera) had begun to fall. The African National Congress (ANC) swept the election with over 60% of the vote. In 1994, the country experienced its first election open to all its citizens. As one might expect in a country where racial and economic inequality is so stark, dismantling the economic structures of apartheid has proven more difficult. OVER THE PAST few years, South Africa has undergone the dramatic political transition from apartheid to non-racial democracy. Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah.Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was A Crime".The Politics of South Africa: The Transition to Democracy.Northern Ireland's Marching Season Crisis.Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City.New York Transit Between Old and New Directions.At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?". ![]()
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