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Anti-Racism as law: Joel Pollak reports on challenges facing South Africa's ambitious efforts to legislate against racism. (South Africa in Focus).
The legacy of the apartheid legal structure is literally stamped on the South African landscape. In Cape Town, its somber monument is a great grassy swath of land stretching east of the downtown area along the seaward slopes of Devil's Peak. Now called Zonnebloem (Afrikaans for "wildflower"), this treeless and houseless wasteland was once known as District Six, a vibrant mixed-race neighborhood notorious for its grit and celebrated for its culture. It was slowly demolished and evacuated by the apartheid government from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, and its residents were forced into townships on the Cape Flats. But before the bulldozers and wrecking balls had moved ...
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