Social Cohesion Summit

Readers express their views about the Zapiro cartoon which appeared in last week’s Mail & Guardian.

Beware of repeating the apartheid era’s fatal error of failing to heed the people’s desperate cries, writes Sandi Baai.

Ahead of the summit, the department said social cohesion was "based on four key pillars — diversity, inclusiveness, access and values.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu coined the term in 1994, but 18 years on, the "rainbow nation" is battling entrenched social and economic divisions.

Disappointingly, politicians at the Social Cohesion Summit ended up slinging mud at one another instead of buckling down, writes Kwanele Sosibo.