steve biko i write what i like chapter summary

The inequality in South Africa has led to a system where two decades after the end of apartheid black South African youths face a system of exclusion that hampers their efforts thrive and prosper.Ĭonsequently, South African youths have taken it upon themselves to expose the limitations of transitional arrangements from which the post-apartheid state was constructed. Theologian Ndikho Mtshiselwa traces the level of inequality in South Africa to the presence of apartheid colonial social order which the democratic regime unwittingly administers, instead of changing or providing leadership in their destruction. “So we are still very much with the same structure of racial inequality that we used to have.' He says this group historically has been predominantly white. In similar vein, economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in The Twenty-First Century, states that 60 to 65 percent of South Africa's wealth is concentrated in the hands of just 10 percent of the population.

With an income Gini ratio that ranges between 0.66 to 0.70, the top decile of the population accounts for 58 percent of the country's income, while the bottom decile accounts for 0.5 percent and the bottom half less than 8 percent. The World Bank's statistics on inequality in South Africa confirms Subramany's statement on equality as South Africa has one of the highest inequality rates in the world. 'That we are all part of a rainbow nation that means we are all equal, is something not many people I know either, elders and young people, believe in.' 'I think one question we can answer with confidence is that very few if any, young black South Africans believe in the rainbow concept as it has been explained by whiteness,' Deshnee Subramany, news editor at The Huffington Post South Africa, tells me about the rainbow concept. Children born during this period are known as the Born Free Generation.ĭespite having no memory of the apartheid era, black South African youths do not consider themselves free or believe in the rainbow concept as they continue to face the same inequalities as the Struggle Generation. First coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Rainbow Nation myth reflects the harmonious existence of the ethnic and racial groups in South Africa within the new democracy.

With the end of apartheid in 1994, the Rainbow Nation myth emerged. ixodwQhj8e - Okayafrica DecemBorn Free But Still In Rainbow Chains Watch this rare clip of Biko's thought on anti-apartheid. Happy Birthday to the 'Father of Black Consciousness' Steve Biko.

Steve biko i write what i like chapter summary