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Ethics in international Relations

......The Case of South Africa
In February 1990, South Africa embarked upon a historical path, a path the countries white Afrikaner leaders had been steered to by world opinion. Under pressure by world leaders, who were in turn under pressure by their constituents, South Africa took the first steps towards the inclusion of its black majority in the countrys political, social, and economic processes from which blacks had long been excluded from. The first steps, though largely symbolic in nature, were nonetheless a reflection of the white minority rules willingness to finally create a role for the countrys black majority, which would inevitably lead to the black majoritys control over the country, but with protections for the white minority Afrikaners. Each group, having long standing fears and concerns about the changes that beginning to take place, needed to find a balance that would best serve the country as a whole
Symbolic of the change in direction, was the release from prison of the black political leader, Nelson Mandela (Ottaway 1993). Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned for twenty-seven years, and his African National Congress party (ANC) had been banned. South Africa banned any black freedom or opposition group, but Mandela became