Good morning from ENCA, I am Ricky Girnun reporting live. Racial segregation is extremely prevalent in all parts of South Africa and even though we are well into the Post-Apartheid era, has much changed? Sandton City – the richest square mile in Africa, but take a 10 minute drive from that very spot and you will encounter poverty, dirt and disease in the township of Alexandra.
This issue was chosen because it has been ongoing and it is time to take a stand for it. When South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994 ending the cruel era of Apartheid, the world thought racism had come to an end. For hundreds of years the white colonizers ruled South Africa with an iron fist, but 1994 brought a new dawn for the country that was to become known as the Rainbow Nation.
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Racism is a reality in this country and it will take long to end since it started in 1652. If we don’t end it, wars can come into place and hatred will grow in all of the different racial groups.
Crime is a fear of white and middle class people. When white people fear crime, they raise walls, and gate their streets. Some pack for Australia, of course, but by no means in the quantum that blacks move to suburbs. Black people move to white suburbs and get involved to pay for security and street gates too.
However, there is Racism from black people towards white people too. When interviewing a middle-aged South African black man, he had the following to say about Racial Segregation:
“There is still racial division among the groups. And I would say that black people are not really over the past. We name call whites, Umlungu, we even fail to see white people as people, and the ‘white’ has to feature somewhere. Find a bunch of black people talking about white people, we annihilate everything about them, their habits are reduced to white habits, even if we secretly do some of those