On 1 February 1991, at the opening of the new session of South Africa's parliament, President F.W. de Klerk announced his government's intention to scrap three of the 'pillars' of apartheid the Land Act, which reserves 87 per cent of South Africa's land for the white minority; the Group Areas Act, which mandates residential and business segregation; and, perhaps most significantly, the Population Registration Act, which underpins the whole system of apartheid by providing for the classification of all South Africans according to race.1 This announcement does not yet mean that apartheid is dead, but, coming after a turbulent year of change that began with the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990, it is one further proof that apartheid is dying. The death throes of apartheid come at a time when profound changes are occurring throughout the region of southern Africa. In Namibia, independence has been successfully achieved, a liberal-democratic constitution harmoniously agreed upon, and moves begun towards national reconciliation and reconstruction. In both Angola and Mozambique, talks are under way between the government and its guerrilla opponents, offering the prospect, though not yet the reality, of the end to years of bloody civil war. Meanwhile, even as the wars continue,