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Is the use of racial categories holding back national unity?

13 October 2024

This milestone year in the life of democratic South Africa behoves us to have difficult conversations about the unfinished business of decolonisation, national unity, and what it would truly take to inculcate a culture of human rights based on a just and egalitarian society. These conversations would be incomplete if we did not debate the continuing use of racial categories by the state.

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The Human Rights Commission is the national institution established to support constitutional democracy. It is committed to promote respect for, observance of and protection of human rights for everyone without fear or favour.

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