Affirmative action must go if South Africa is to flourish

It is impossible to have been born black in apartheid South Africa and not to have experienced racism. I was born in 1959 during the tenure of the then prime minister HF Verwoerd, known as the architect of apartheid and an unashamed advocate of institutionalised racism. I grew up in Bophuthatswana and experienced first-hand the results of racial segregation.