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South Africans have formed a common state nationalism quite fast despite socio-economic differences and cleavages. (Photo by Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
CULTURE

Is South Africa a nation?

There is a need for deliberate, inclusive strategies to bridge ethnic and racial cleavages and foster a more equitable and unified national identity

  • Meketsi Tsotetsi
14 min read
South Africa is widely recognised as the most unequal society in the world, with a startling 71% of the country’s wealth concentrated in the hands of a mere 10% elite
NATION

South African society is fractured: Our imagination must come home

Nationhood is not visible. It exists as overlapping ideas and ideals that need to be formed collectively

  • Jaco Kruger
7 min read