This is a study of the transition to democracy in South Africa. It delineates South Africas transition as the ultimate consequence of the clash between the enforced political constructs of apartheid and the inexorably prevailing economic realities in South Africa. Apartheid was implemented from 1948 in order to impose strictly political measures above the general economic concerns of South Africa. Yet this induced sustained structural economic crisis, especially from the 1970s. The growing consensus of the 1980s advocating the primacy of negotiations and the excruciating process of...