Steve Biko dared to dream of a future where all black people were free from oppression and violence and instead found value in themselves. Mangosuthu Buthelezi led a separatist and tribalist agenda that turned people against each other.
While massive looting happened primarily during the Jacob Zuma presidency, and continues today, some of the foundations for our difficulties in South Africa can be found in relatively neglected features of the earlier periods following the advent of democratic rule.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa hails a leader who ‘epitomised the ethos and expectations of our then fledgling Constitution’, as tributes start pouring in for the founding Speaker of South Africa’s democratic Parliament.