Keeping control over the economy in post-apartheid South Africa is not an easy job. After decades of white minority rule, when the privileged few prospered on the back of the country’s extensive natural wealth, the sudden change to fully-fledged democracy and the rising expectations of millions of newly-enfranchised citizens could well have led to instability. Like so many of its neighbours, South Africa could have been faced with internal strife, new social divisions and new forms of exploitation.
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