From the ashes, a new South Africa: reflections of a nation's metamorphosis in a giant festival of arts.(Postmark: Grahamstown)(Critical Essay)
American Theatre, October, 2003 by Vandenbroucke, Russell
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Viewed against the usual pace of history, the transformation of South Africa has been as rapid as it has been inspiring: from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release after 27 years of imprisonment, to 1994's democratic elections, to a new constitution in 1996. Even considering the decades of riots, boycotts and resistance before and after the institution of apartheid in 1948, the revolution in South Africa occurred over a relatively short time and with remarkably few deaths.
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Unlike civil wars of other countries, including our own, those who died number in the hundreds, not the hundreds of ...
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