RaceThe author interviews some South Africans of different hues, about the idea of race, what it has meant to them and how they envision a future South Africa, steeped as the country and its people are in a highly charged and often unacknowledged world of racial sensitivity. Amongst the interviewees are Naledi Pandor, Minister of Education; Wilmot James, executive director of the African Genome Education Institute; Rhoda Kadalie, journalist and human rights activist; Melanie Verwoerd, former South African ambassador to Ireland; Phatekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa); and Carel Boshoff, the founder of Orania, an Afrikaner homeland established in 1991 in the Northern Cape. |
Contents
am not a racist but | 1 |
Race in the notsonew South Africa | 7 |
Who are we? | 45 |
What is racism? | 85 |
The aftereffects of apartheid | 103 |
Is racism a South African problem? | 117 |
Xenophobia | 131 |
Can racism ever be eliminated? | 145 |
Racism in the media | 171 |
Criticising government Is this racism? | 187 |
Is there still a need for exclusively black or white organisations? | 201 |
How do we explain apartheid to our youth? | 209 |
The future | 229 |
Final thoughts | 245 |
Permissions | 247 |
Bibliography | 249 |
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