For 32 years, the African National Congress (ANC) has governed South Africa. When the ANC gained power in 1994, the newly emerging 'Rainbow Nation' appeared full of promise. With an economy fully opened to the world, the former pariah state re-entered the global stage. Then President Nelson Mandela walked a perilous tightrope between appeasing white-dominated centres of power and the country’s new electorate, 62% of whom backed the ANC. 32 years later, however, the party’s g