The Nation rainbow indicates the South Africa in the period post-apartheid. In the first times, the relations are good between the former oppressors and the old ones oppressed, mainly thanks to Nelson Mandela, and one speaks then about “Nation rainbow”.

It is a concept invented by the archbishop Desmond Tutu and on whom Nelson Mandela worked out much. It is a question of putting in contrast the diversity of the new South-African nation, compared to the ideology separationnist of apartheid.