The biggest winner in South Africa’s May 7th parliamentary election is democracy itself. Twenty years after the first all race ballot, Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation is alive and well in the country of 50 million. The election is a triumph of constitutional government and rule of law. Eighteen million people, 74% of registered voters, peacefully cast ballots at 22,000 polling stations across nine provinces from … Continue reading South Africa’s Election a Triumph of Democracy