It's time we ditched our apartheid and tribal instincts

From Westbury in Johannesburg to Mitchells Plain in Cape Town, something troubling has been unravelling in South Africa's society.

People mobilise themselves and articulate their grievances not as the poor, or even as blacks, but as “coloured people”.

We need a symbolic politics that names and acclaims all people as citizens, not as races.

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