Opinion
December 16: a celebration of SA’s make-believe reconciliation
13 December 2020 - 00:00
If Nelson Mandela were alive today, what would he say about the state of the nation on Reconciliation Day? Would he see a more united, more humane country than he found when he left prison 30 years ago? Or would he ponder the wreckage of a failed nation-building project, rent by racial division and economic inequality?..
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