Mit vereinten Kräften: Letzte Chance einer Stabilisierung des neuen Südafrikas

With the end of the Cold War, Great Britain and the United States saw themselves in a position to force South Africa to abandon its policy of apartheid, which had grown over the past 350 years. The ensuing path to democracy was fraught with numerous shortcomings. These include Germany’s ambitious attempt to “impose” the German constitutional model on South Africa. The model proved fragile and led the young democracy into the abyss. The article positions itself in favour of a stronger political involvement of the Afrikaner civil rights movement Solidariteit to limit the damage done.