computers and peripherals, computer software, drugs and pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, airport and ground support equipment, franchising, metalworking machinery, and telecommunications (“South Africa: ‘Big Emerging Market’,” 1999).For more than 40 years the policy of apartheid had oppressed South Africa’s majority black and nonwhites. With the end of apartheid, the South African government has made moderate changes to its domestic and foreign policies to form a non-racial, free, democratic society and to open up its markets to the global economy. Today a new South Africa is being created by building the future from an imperfect past....
