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South Africa's Election Eve

Forgive the silence of late. I spent several days in England for a conference and am just now re-emerging.

Tomorrow South Africans go to the polls for the fourth time in the democratic era. The Foreign Policy Association has my preview of the election, which is part one of a two-part feature, the second of which will provide an immediate assessment of the results.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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