Robert Morrell – The Mail & Guardian

/ 8 April 2008

The abuse of transformation

There can be little doubt that all South Africans need to commit themselves to transformation. The recent racist video taken at the University of the Free State and the persistence and extent of racialised patterns of poverty are just two of the more obvious reasons it is necessary to keep working to change society and to remove the legacy of apartheid.

By Robert Morrell

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/ 1 April 2005

White, male, democrat, African

"I write this article as a white man. I write also as a South African and as a democrat. These are identities that are important to me and many other South Africans. They cut across race, gender and generation. They provide a basis for collective work and for bridge building. So why should white men be taken out of the category ‘South African’ and subjected to special treatment," asks Robert Morrell.

By Staff Reporter and Robert Morrell