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Notions of purity or exceptionalism are nothing more than ethno-nationalist xenophobic nonsense
Apart from about 8% of the population, those who “don’t see race” or believe that legal apartheid is over and we have to “move on”, South Africans have a right to remember and to remind ourselves of how racism has structured state and society, and …