South Africa's multi-lingual national anthem: Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika ("God Bless Africa"). Click the flag to listen to the song and read the words. (The last verse is in English.)

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Jim Gibson and Amanda Gouws, “Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Attributions of Blame and the Struggle over Apartheid” AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 93: 3. 1999.

Courtney Jung and Ian Shapiro, "South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order," in POLITICS AND SOCIETY, VOL 23, NO. 3, September 1995, 269-308.

Nelson Mandela, Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Boston: Little Brown, 1994.

Martin J. Murray, Revolution deferred : the painful birth of post-apartheid South Africa. New York: Verso, 1994

Robert Mattes, "South Africa: Democracy without the People," in Journal of Democracy, 13.1, January, 2002.

INTERNET SOURCES

Beyond Hatred: South Africa Reborn (PBS Newshour)

Languages of South Africa: Voices of a Rainbow Nation

Truth and Reconciliation Commision Web Site

South African Government On-line

South Africa Page (UPenn)

Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)

VIDEOS (Available at the Wellesley College Knapp Center)

"Long Day's Journey Into Night" An Iris Productions film about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

"Mandela" WGBH Boston/PBS Video, c1994; (57 min.).

"South Africa, the Apartheid years" Villon Films ; produced and directed by Peter Davis [1998]. 4 videocassettes (196 min.).

"South Africa: building democracy" Produced, written and edited by Sam Kauffmann. c1998. 3 videocassettes.

"The Deadline" Producer, Harriet Gavshon ; director, David Jammy. First Run/Icarus Films, 1996. 1 videocassette (52 min.).