1. Introduction: The theory and practice of democratic development -- Part 1. Legacies of the past. 2. Apartheid and its legacies -- 3. Liberation history -- Part 2. Negotiating South Africa's transition: laying the foundations. 4. Apartheid to democracy -- 5. The birth of a constitutional state -- 6. Transitional justice -- Part 3. Procedural democratisation in South Africa. 7. Elections, political parties and voting trends in South Africa's dominant party system -- 8. Civil society and civic participation -- Part 4. Substantive democratisation in South Africa. 9. Socio-economic contexts -- 10. Economic policy in post-apartheid South Africa -- 11. Political culture in South Africa -- Part 5. South Africa in the world. 12. South Africa in a complex regional, continental and global order -- 13. South Africa's 20 years of democracy and beyond.