International relations minister Naledi Pandor met ambassadors and high commissioners from Africa on Monday to ease tensions after a diplomatic fallout triggered by attacks on foreign nationals that have rocked the country. Pandor told the diplomats, among other explanations, that the legacy of apartheid which caused economic inequalities in the country was to blame for..
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‘Legacy of apartheid’ to blame for anti mass immigration violence says minister Naledi Pandor
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Land debate in South Africa is about dignity and equality— not the Constitution
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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