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15 February 2021, 18:45 UTC The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged South Africa’s schools further into crisis, exposing how the country’s education system continues to be shaped by the legacy of apartheid, Amnesty International said today. A child’s experience of education in South Africa is still dependent on where they are born, how wealthy they are, and the colour of their skin Shenilla Mohamed, Executive Director of Amnesty International South Africa In a new report, ailing to learn lessons: The impact of COVID-19 on a broken and unequal education system, the organization highlights how students from poorer communities have been cut off from education during extended school closures, in a country where just 10 percent of households have an internet connection. Meanwhile historic underinvestment and the government’s failure to address existing inequalities has resulted in many schools not having running water or proper toilets whilst struggling wi ....
55 years after forced removals, hope is blooming for District Six claimants After one of the most callous dispossessions of apartheid, more than 100 District Six claimants will soon be able to return to the place they once called home. Gamza and Hajir Sydow are among the District Six claimants hoping to be able to return home soon. Picture: Graig-Lee Smith/Eyewitness News 53 days ago CAPE TOWN - It seems there’s a glimmer of hope for resolution for some of the families dispossessed in District Six. Today marks 55 years since the vibrant neighbourhood was declared a whites only area under the Apartheid Group Areas Act. ....
OPINION: A response to using apartheid in Israel - the shoe fits It was in 1961 that Hendrik Verwoerd, declared that, “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.” In the half-century since, South Africans have dismantled the formal system of racial segregation instituted by Verwoerd and his racist National Party, and yet, on Palestinian land, apartheid still stands. During that same period of time, countless other, more respectable South Africans have made the comparison between the two regimes and, unlike Verwoerd, have chosen to identify with the struggle of the indigenous Palestinians, rather than the ruling Israeli class. In 1987, Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a conference of Palestinian Christians said, “I’ve been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in SA. I’ve seen the humiliation of Palestinians at [Israeli] checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white polic ....
OPINION: It’s time for black people to reclaim the term apartheid For nearly a century, apartheid defined South Africa by instituting racial segregation as the foundation of our political system. As a young black South African, I am reminded that for our parents and grandparents, the apartheid years were a source of deep personal trauma. Their generations were compelled to live under that viciously discriminatory system and those of us who have grown up in post-apartheid South Africa can clearly sense its lingering legacy even today. Precisely because we South Africans know intimately what apartheid involved, we have a duty to question whether it is an appropriate term to be used outside of its continental context, such as recently by the civil society organisation, B Tselem, in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict. ....
There Was No Trust : Apartheid Ghosts Stalk S.Africa s Vaccine Fears By Sofia CHRISTENSEN 02/05/21 AT 12:35 AM At the very mention of the word vaccine , 82-year-old Josefine Hlomuka vehemently shook her head, her face clouding with worry as she gazed at the storm bearing down on her home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. We don t trust, whispered the former peanut seller, haunted by the four decades she spent under apartheid. White-minority rule was swept away a generation ago but faith in South Africa s government today, its reputation undermined by corruption and incompetence, is poor. Such deep-rooted distrust, say experts, lies behind vaccine scepticism that has flared since coronavirus hit the country last March. ....