Out of nothing, nothing comes: the lingering effects of racism in politics

The many implications of apartheid seriously maimed not just the physical bodies, but the souls of many South Africans. This is what happens when the people in power do not reflect the people they represent.

Children are pictured in a a ‘resettlement’ village in the former province of Natal, South Africa in January 1982. Millions of Black South Africans were forcibly resettled in such villages called Black ‘homelands’ as of 1948. The Bantu education system presented Blacks as 'sub-human beings incapable of assimilating civilization,' thereby excluding them from mainstream political, economic, and social life and advancement. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations

Opinion

BY SIBONGISENI DLAMINI-MNTAMBO

June 19, 2019

OTTAWA—“Out of nothing, nothing comes.” If this saying is true, as once asserted by former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki when giving an address in Ottawa on Historical Injustice in 1979, “then, it must follow that the future is formed and derives its first impulse in the womb of the pre...

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