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Kim Wale

Kim Wale is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Historical Trauma and Transformation Initiative at Stellenbosch University. She is author of South Africa’s Struggle to Remember: Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape.

Everyday exclusion: Residents in the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town. ‘When you say you are from Langa there’s a stigma around the room,’ says a young man from the township. (David Harrison/M&G)
COUNTRY

SA has a legacy of trauma

Transforming the symbols of apartheid violence is not the endpoint of addressing our heritage

  • Alec Basson
  • Kim Wale
5 min read
The people of areas such as Langa on the Cape Flats have not had the liberation that the end of apartheid was supposed to have brought. (David Harrison)
APARTHEID

Betrayal adds to apartheid trauma

People sacrificed to achieve liberation but they continue to suffer from poverty and exclusion

  • Kim Wale
4 min read
The ANC’s top six, including Magashule, stepped back from the statement the secretary general issued on a review of the mandate of the central bank on Tuesday which led to the row. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo)
CHRIS HANI

Disgruntled South Africans are showing signs of powering up

Trust in governance institutions and leaders is declining steadily and could signal the burgeoning of a more critical citizenship, writes Kim Wale.

  • Kim Wale
3 min read