South Africa's BEE project intersects with xenophobia

As we all reflect on this unfortunate development in South Africa, one of the most positive outcomes is that an opportunity has been created for a frank and honest conversation about what it means to be African.

Apartheid is buried but the image of what it means to be South African and who is entitled to be a South African may find its roots in the construction of a colonial and subsequently an apartheid state. It is undeniable that white South Africans are as foreign to South Africa as are post-apartheid black Africans.

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