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Despite widespread black poverty caused by unemployment, progress has been made towards the goal of a racially equal society.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically against politicians who abused their power.
A more balanced picture of “coloured” mens’ experiences and lives allows society to see beyond negative stereotypes.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
The election of Port Elizabeth’s first black mayor in 1995 signalled that the democratic change that had started in 1994 was irreversible. But problems lay ahead.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
