This paper examines Nadine Gordimer’s post-apartheid novel The Pickup in the light of an all-inclusive social, political, and economic restructuring and reforms in South Africa after the demise of apartheid. South African democracy, in the new millennium, negotiates the process of globalization and its transnational responses that create new models of lopsided developments and opportunities in the civil society. It is not just globalization that has given rise to this asymmetrical access to economic resources; since the demise of apartheid, South Africa is faced with great influx of illegal immigrants and refugees from the neighboring states which further puts an excess load on the fledgling South African economy. In The Pickup, Gordimer explores these issues that are beyond the nation and its political imaginary. In the novel, she gives up her exclusive focus on South Africa and its national specificity and moves beyond to explore the idea of the nation less as a unified concept, more as an open society, in which freedom abounds beyond the abstract ideal. The paper analyzes how The Pickup presents a post-apartheid scenario of global and shifting identities wherein Gordimer rejects the idea of linear local trajectories of individual sensibilities and investigates the intersecting boundaries of varied local/global subjectivities and the continually evolving transnational identities in the contemporary globalized world.