The Rainbow Epilogue

South Africa is a country of shattered dreams. Since the country’s inception in 1910, it has had a succession of leaders who promised a prosperous future, focussed mainly on satisfying a minority white electorate. But each of their dreams have been unfulfilled and woefully inadequate in accommodating the political aspirations of the majority black population.

When 1994 dawned, and the country finally became a full-blown democracy with a greatly admired constitution and a positive redistributive policy to redress the wrongs of the past, there was unprecedented hope for a bright future. Thus, the Rainbow Nation was born to the acclaim of the international community, but over the past twenty- eight years those bright, hopeful colours have faded, and today the country is on the verge of collapse. Can the dream be saved by ordinary South Africans coming together to pick up the remnants of a broken democracy?