More than one specter haunts South Africa

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This week, the World Bank issued a report, South Africa Economic Update: Inequality of Opportunity. The report accurately and unsurprisingly details the depth of inequality in the new South Africa. For some, this report, and even more inequality itself, proves that “the spirit of Verwoerd still haunts” the nation. For others, the report details a […]

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“How do you feel being a young, black person in South Africa?”

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This is not about Jacob Zuma’s sex life

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On Monday tens of thousands of young South Africans marched in Cape Town, South Africa, to demand access to a quality education; that is for “… stocked libraries, running water, electrical connections, sports facilities, computer centres and sanitary toilets.  In other words, all the infrastructural facilities that students need in order to learn and thrive.” […]

No More Bantu Education

Some of you probably heard about Equal Education, a new South African mass movement to campaign for and end to education disparities inherited from Apartheid and neglected by the democratic government, for the first time when The New York Times ran a feature about them in September 2009. As The Times reported at the time: […]

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