Reconciliation Day: Inequality remains obstacle to reconciliation, says Ramaphosa

Reconciliation Day: Inequality remains obstacle to reconciliation, says Ramaphosa

Sithembisiwe Maseko of Zimbabwe stops at the Mandela Mural, by Cape Town artist Mak1one, on her way to work. Picture: Armand Hough/African News Agency (ANA) Cape Town – President Cyril Ramaphosa says it is important to deal decisively with the obstacles to reconciliation, among them the high levels of inequality in the country and the persistence of racist attitudes and practices.

Writing in his weekly newsletter, he said it was, however, equally important to acknowledge just how vastly different the country was today to what it had been 26 years ago.

“For every negative story of racism that makes the news, […]

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