MOELETSI MBEKI: How a history of conflict made SA the most unequal country in the world
After the mismanagement of its finances, the country now stares into the abyss
21 September 2020 - 19:21
The history of SA’s conquest by the Dutch and British, and the reaction of its native peoples to their conquest, is the only context in which SA’s issues of race and race relations are understandable.
Among native peoples I include descendants of slaves and indentured Indian labourers, as well as Dutch settlers who later described themselves as Afrikaners since they also eventually resisted Dutch and British domination...
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