Apartheid laws still affecting South Africans: premier

[James]

Apartheid's laws are still affecting South Africans after 20 years of democracy, Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza said in his state-of-the-province address on Friday.

"This long-standing exclusion is still having an adverse social and economic impact on the lives of many South Africans," he said, according to a copy of his speech.

"The challenge of our new democracy has been to enhance social cohesion, a collective identity, and a sense of national pride."

 

[Ike_009]

Because assholes like this keep bringing this story up and trying to further the rift by living in the past. Maybe try doing something proactive.

 

[blaaislaai]

The current laws are the actual problem, set by the ANC.

 

[XbatousaiX]

I wonder how long it is gonna take till voters see past this smoke screen.

 

[Necuno]

Apartheid's laws are still affecting South Africans after 20 years of democracy, Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza said in his state-of-the-province address on Friday.

"This long-standing exclusion is still having an adverse social and economic impact on the lives of many South Africans," he said, according to a copy of his speech.

"The challenge of our new democracy has been to enhance social cohesion, a collective identity, and a sense of national pride."

Agreed. That self-enrichment schemes like BEE is very much alive and kicking, not forgetting AA...

The current laws are the actual problem, set by the ANC.

/thread

 

[Snare]

To be fair; the legacy of Apartheid will still have it's fingerprint on the identity of our nation for still a while yet. However the keys to future lie not in attempting to unlock the chains of the past; but in creating a spirit of freedom where the thought of cultural shackles is both alien and deplorable. Such a nation cannot be created whilst we remain obsessed with oppression; rather we shall be allowing the ghosts of division to become less than mere memories and more than reality. As long as we refuse to see past the past we walk blind into the future. I doubt any of us truly want that

 

[addam]

It's been 20 years since Apartheid, in my books that's enough time to put right most of the wrongs, and I don't think they're allowed to blame Apartheid for our problems anymore.

Remember when we were colonized? That's where all our issues come from.

 

[Ike_009]

It's been 20 years since Apartheid, in my books that's enough time to put right most of the wrongs, and I don't think they're allowed to blame Apartheid for our problems anymore.

Remember when we were colonized? That's where all our issues come from.

Then I blame the african cavemen who moved through to europe who later become the dutch who then colonised the cape

 

[addam]

Then I blame the african cavemen who moved through to europe who later become the dutch who then colonised the cape

From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. "

 

[Ike_009]

From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. "

I was trying to bring the circle back the their ancestors

 

[Snare]

It's been 20 years since Apartheid, in my books that's enough time to put right most of the wrongs, and I don't think they're allowed to blame Apartheid for our problems anymore.

Remember when we were colonized? That's where all our issues come from.

Well if we were to anthropomorphise our Democracy then it would ONLY be years old, and would still have a lot to learn. Consider for example that in America; segregation officially ended in 1968 and yet the legacy of that still continues to this day. Not to say that I hope that we remember it forever, indeed the memories must fade eventually, but it;s a bit Naive to expect it after only 20 years.

I think that the only way it will truly end is if everyone who was alive during Apartheid is to pass away; then the legacy of it will only be based on hearsay and not experience.