APARTHEID CANNOT BE REFORMED

He was no fortune teller but the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) party's Johnson Mlambo correctly predicted a partial overhaul of South Africa's apartheid system would not lead to the total emancipation of the country's people. In his words, 'Apartheid cannot be reformed.'

Lo and behold, his words ring true some three decades after racial segregation officially ended. Despite achieving what many see as political freedom, South Africa is still characterised by high levels of poverty among its majority Black population and currently ranks as the mos unequal country in the planet. It’s the result of apartheid-era economic systems and structures that were never properly dismantled by successive governments.