Microlog

Photojournalist Simon Wood meets the people who lost most when Mandela won

Id est, the Afrikaaner underclass in today’s South Africa. There’s still a lot of bitterness, still much resentment. But by and large, they only have themselves and/or the apartheid goverment’s protectionist policies to blame for their current predicament.

Fri 12 May 2006 at 14:06   ·


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You are reading Race against time, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Arts & Culture, and was published in May 2006.

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#apartheid #culture #racism #society #southafrica


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This day in history: 12 May


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