Respected Africanist Allison Drew has an insightful piece about the current state of South African politics and society in Political Insight. Her’s is a fairly sobering take on South Africa in 2010.
[The article is very much worth reading, but I do wish the editors had not been so sloppy as to provide a map from 1994 which not only does not depict South Africa’s current provincial borders or names, and which uses Afrikaans as its predominant language.]