Worldfocus correspondent Martin Seemungal takes a look at South Africa’s easing of racial tensions in the Signature Story “Poverty preserves racial lines in post-apartheid South Africa.” Despite legal racial equality, social and economic structures continue to enforce a wide poverty gap in the country.
Dr. Xolela Mangcu of the Platform for Public Deliberation and the Social Cohesion and Identity Research Programme discusses this divide and the failure of a liberated people to meet the demands of the Mandela promise.
07/27/2009 :: 12:52:18 AM
Roy Stark Says:
At is amazing that 10 years on and all we have managed to do is replace one racial society with another, as Dr. Xolela Mangcu mentions we now have Affirmative Action which he seem to support and this Government enforced policy makes White South African males un-employable. Then he goes on to brag that he is a member of the “elitist group” whose aim it seems is to further line their pockets with tax-payers money whilst the majority of South African black people still live in poverty. What went wrong so badly that Mandelas promises of a “better South Africa” FOR ALL went out of the window. We now have a government of people who keep blaming the “whites” for everything that went or still goes wrong whilst they have the power to change it.