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South Africans tasted the fruits of freedom and then corruption snatched them away – podcast
Five years after his momentous election as South African president, Nelson Mandela stepped down after one term in office in 1999.
Thabo Mbeki, his deputy, took over the mantle of the post-apartheid transition.
Mbeki would lead the country for the next nine years, a period of relatively high economic growth which enabled South Africans to begin to taste the fruits of freedom.
To mark 30 years since South Africa’s post-apartheid transition began, The Conversation Weekly podcast is running a special three-part podcast series, What happened to…