Violence in South Africa Occurs Amid Signs of Resilience: Analysts
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JOHANNESBURG—He didn’t have to say anything, the looter wearing black jeans, sneakers slippery with soda, and a sweat-and-dirt-stained white t-shirt. It was already shining in his eyes. But as he left the burning mall, he laughed.
“For the first time in my life, I feel free,” he told The Epoch Times
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He was 20, he said. So, he’d never known apartheid. He was one of the so-called Born Frees, the generation birthed after Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) swept to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa’s first multiracial polls in 1994.