Almost fourteen years after South Africa’s first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
The struggle against apartheid has begun again in South Africa
John Pilger describes how economic apartheid has become a model for much of the world and resistance to it has begun again in the country where apartheid was said to be in the past.
South Africa: the liberation’s betrayal
In an article for the Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, John Pilger describes the ‘social and economic catastrophe’ that replaced the African National Congress’s ‘unbreakable’ promise’ to end the poverty of the majority.
Apartheid Did Not Die
An analysis of South Africa’s new, democratic regime. “Apartheid based on race is outlawed now, but the system always went far deeper than that. The cruelty and injustice were underwritten by an economic apartheid which regarded people as no more than cheap, expendable labour… Today, the same system is called, without a trace of irony, […]
