ABSTRACT – South Africa’s Great Pivot: Inside the Chinese and Russian Strategic Play for a Collapsing Post-Mandela State The narrative of post-apartheid South Africa—the Nelson Mandela ideal of a unified, non-racial, and prosperous “Rainbow Nation”—has yielded, by November 2025, to a reality defined by profound geopolitical stress and staggering domestic decay. This is the condition … Leggi tutto The Geopolitical Compression of a Dream Deferred: South Africa’s Pivot to the East and the Crisis of the Post-Apartheid State