Tag: National Identity

  • What Makes Something Unmistakably South African?

    What Makes Something Unmistakably South African?

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    Heritage, belonging and South Africa’s unfinished national identity South Africa is one of those countries the world already thinks it understands. Apartheid, Mandela, 1994, reconciliation, Ubuntu and the Rainbow Nation provide an exceptionally powerful shorthand for our modern history, and none of those ideas is false or unimportant. The difficulty…