CLASSIC ESSAYS: The hijacking of Mandela's legacy – T

CLASSIC ESSAYS: The hijacking of Mandela's legacy – The Greanville Post


 
The death of Nelson Mandela, at age 95 on 5 December 2013, brings genuine sadness. As his health deteriorated over the past six months, many asked the more durable question: 
how did he change South Africa
? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is, 
how much room was there for Mandela to maneuver
? South Africa now lurches from crisis to crisis, and so many of us are tempted to remember the Mandela years – especially the first democratic government – as fundamentally different from the crony-capitalist, corruption-riddled, brutally-securitised, eco-destructive and anti-egalitarian regime we suffer now. But were the seeds of our present political weeds sown earlier? 

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