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Some Mixed-race South Africans Believe Apartheid Was Better Than Now
When the term “rainbow nation” was coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu after South Africa’s first fully democratic national election in 1994, it was hoped that South Africa would move on from its past and become a nation where all races, ethnicities, and creeds would have a say in how the nation was run. Twenty-five years later, it hasn’t worked out that way.
“It’s all about the blacks. The rainbow nation is a big lie,” Dalene Raiters, a South African mother who is not white, told the Daily Mail April 25. Raiters is one of South Africa’s mixed-race people, known as “coloured.”
“We are not part of this country. We were marginalized during the apartheid and even now,” said Raiters, who lives with nine others in a tiny one-bedroom house with a hut in the backyard in Eldorado Park — a majority coloured suburb of Johannesburg.
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