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Mediation Arguments No. 5 the DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK: the ABSENCE of SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION in the SOUTH AFRICAN TRANSITION to DEMOCRACY MEDIATION ARGUMENTS MEDIATION Mediation Arguments no. 5 THE DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK: THE ABSENCE OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY Chris Saunders April 2014 Copyright © Chris Saunders, 2014 Mediation Arguments is a working paper series of the Centre for Mediation in Africa, based in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria (www.centreformediation.up.ac.za). The series explores the G\QDPLFVDQGRXWFRPHVRIPHGLDWLRQHIIRUWVWRSUHYHQWPDQDJHDQGUHVROYHKLJKLQWHQVLW\FRQÀLFW7KHVHULHV editors are Chris Ankersen, Laurie Nathan and Maxi Schoeman. The copy editor is Di Kilpert. The mission of WKH&HQWUHLVWRFRQWULEXWH WRHQKDQFLQJ WKHHIIHFWLYHQHVVRIPHGLDWLRQLQPDMRUFRQÀLFWVLQ$IULFDWKURXJK teaching, training, research and supporting the UN, the AU, sub-regional organisations and African govern- ments. The Centre is funded by generous grants from the governments of Belgium and Norway. Requests for permission to reproduce this paper, and proposals to submit a paper, should be sent to [email protected] Centre for Mediation in Africa. University of Pretoria ISSN 2306-8078 (print) 3ULYDWH%DJ;+DW¿HOG6RXWK$IULFD ,661 RQOLQH 7KHGRJWKDWGLGQ¶WEDUN7KHDEVHQFHRIVLJQL¿FDQW international mediation in the South African transition to democracy Chris Saunders* The struggle to overthrow apartheid came to an end in the early 1990s in a negotiated settlement WKDWSURYLGHGIRUDWUDQVLWLRQWRPDMRULW\UXOHDQGWKHQHZHUDZDVXVKHUHGLQE\6RXWK$IULFD¶V¿UVW democratic election, held in April 1994, the outcome of which was widely accepted. 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We have only to think of such relatively recent cases as, say, the mediation by Richard Holbrooke of the US in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Dayton Accords on Bosnia in 1995, or the mediation by former US Senator George Mitchell that helped produce the Good Friday DJUHHPHQW LQ 1RUWKHUQ ,UHODQG LQ 7KRXJK WKH ,VUDHOL3DOHVWLQLDQ FRQÀLFW UHPDLQV XQUHVROYHG this is not for want of international mediation, by, inter alia, President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978, the Government of Norway in the early 1990s and the present US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in 2013. 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