South Africa Divided against AIDS: a Crisis of Leadership

Virginia Vliet

Chapter 4 in AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic, 2004, pp 48-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the heady days of 1994, everything seemed possible in the so-called ‘new South Africa’. Installed as president in that year, Nelson Mandela achieved the seemingly impossible — he began the process of uniting a country recently bitterly divided, and enjoyed something as close to universal respect, even reverence, as any politician is likely to experience. This theme of unity marked much of the early 1990s, with Mandela playing a central role in promoting reconciliation, particularly between black and white. It was a theme taken up by those who gathered in 1992 to plan a way forward on the AIDS front.

Keywords: African National Congress; Apartheid Government; Sunday Time; Rape Survivor; Treatment Action Campaign (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523517_4

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