Identity, inequality and social contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa

This paper examines contestations in the South African society – its past, present and future. It provides historical accounts of formation of ethnic and race identities; and offers some evidence that South Africans became less exclusive of people in other race groups during the early years of post-Apartheid period but have reversed this accomplishment over the last ten years. The paper then holistically examines inequality in the post-apartheid period; namely, at national level, between and within ethnic and race groups, and measured by income and by self-assessment of an individual’s life satisfaction.

https://www.opensaldru.uct.ac.za/handle/11090/946

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