Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Future
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Post-Apartheid Africa is now a sovereign, democratic state with values based on dignity and equality.
This does not, however, mean that South Africa is without problems. Years of political unrest and injustice have left the country with huge socio-economic problems even years later. Problems such as: poverty, crime, and shortfalls in education and in desperately needed social services.
Charges of government corruption, conflict with neighboring countries, and an HIV crisis have plagued the leaders of this new nation. South Africa still leads the world in per capita murder rates and still has the highest rate of protests of any nation in the world. Still, this year in 2014, those citizens born since the 1994 democratic election, who are aged 18 and older, are able to vote in their first democratic election. They believe in a nation which will never again suffer the civil injustices created by Apartheid. They are "born-free" and they look to the future with hope.
This does not, however, mean that South Africa is without problems. Years of political unrest and injustice have left the country with huge socio-economic problems even years later. Problems such as: poverty, crime, and shortfalls in education and in desperately needed social services.
Charges of government corruption, conflict with neighboring countries, and an HIV crisis have plagued the leaders of this new nation. South Africa still leads the world in per capita murder rates and still has the highest rate of protests of any nation in the world. Still, this year in 2014, those citizens born since the 1994 democratic election, who are aged 18 and older, are able to vote in their first democratic election. They believe in a nation which will never again suffer the civil injustices created by Apartheid. They are "born-free" and they look to the future with hope.