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Gamble: Even though discussions with the ANC were already under way and Nelson Mandela had been freed, FW de Klerk called the 1992 referendum to assess ‘white’ South Africans’ support for dismantling apartheid. And 68.73% of them voted ‘yes’, effectively silencing the right wing. (David Brauchli/Sygma/Getty Images)
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South Africa must revisit and refresh its idea of itself

Covid has propelled citizens into feelings of a new shared identity in which the historical force of ‘whiteness’ is fading into irrelevance

  • Njabulo Ndebele
7 min read