Introduction

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This past summer Room for Debate published a forum about how constitutional protections have not erased homophobia and other human rights issues in South Africa. Indeed, although the country has come far since apartheid, it has further to go to reach Nelson Mandela’s dream of a democratic nation.

With Mandela’s passing, we highlight, again, for our readers some of the challenges that South Africa faces in its struggle for democracy in a post-Mandela world.