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652 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2014)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0652 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface The end of apartheid, the empowering of majority politicians and political move- ments, the return to South Africa of the African National Congress, and Nelson Mandela's assumption of the reborn nation's leadership heralded a sociological, economic, and political upheaval that was assumed at the time to be sustainably transformational. The new dawn suggested by the Freedom Charter and the long struggle for individual human rights had seemingly arrived, and, despite a number of recognizable challenges, Mandela and his close associates, as well as the general public that had been waiting decades for a release from oppres- sion, expected that South Africa's future would be positive, progressive, and fruitful. But as the articles in this volume explain, there is much still to be accomplished to realize the lofty transformational objectives of the 1990s. Twenty years into South Africa's transition, Mandela's iconic legacy has been seriously abraded, and many of the corrosive challenges that confronted his new government and the new nation in 1994 remain seemingly intracta- ble. As President Jacob Zuma's regime tries to satisfy the major needs of South Africans in 2014 and beyond, his people hope, somehow, that they can recover the promises of renewal and revitalization that were central to the final realization of majority rule. Mandela's passing, as this volume was in press, makes recovering the promise of renewal Robert I. Rotberg is the founding director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School; president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation; fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Fulbright Professor at both the Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University) and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (University of Waterloo); and senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His most recent book is Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities (Polity 2013). DOI: 10.1177/0002716213514197 ANNALS, AAPSS, 652, March 2014 6