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Special focus in
know your rights
campaign on
literacy and
empowering
vulnerable
groups such as
women, farm
workers , people
with disabilities,
children ,
refugees
Continuous The Institute for
Justice and
Reconciliation’s
Reconciliation
Barometer, 2011,
using survey research
methods, examines
the biggest divisions in
our country. It shows
that 18% of South
Africans associate
most strongly with
others who speak the
same language, 19%
with those of the same
ethnic group and 19%
of the same race. In
other words it
confirms the view that
race still matters very
much in South Africa,
of course not
discounting the
significant progress in
uniting the country
and confronting
racism, using legal
instruments and
positive interventions
by civil society
organizations
The Reconciliation
Barometer 2011 also
emphasizes that
recently the biggest
divisions’ in South
Africa is the gap
between rich and
poor’ – or income
inequality. On top of
strong association by
language, ethnic and
racial identities,
association by income
group is an emerging
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South Africa has
made it popular to
commit to nonracism across
sections of society.
The removal of
racial divisions in
the provision of
services has
continued to this
day, recent cases of
public schools
excluding blacks
using the language
of instruction and
private holiday
venues using subtle
ways to apply racial
exclusion have been
subjected to public
scorn by citizens and
government
Recent incidents of
racism on university
campuses that were
previously whitedominated have
also been met with
scorn and
interventions by
authorities have
sought to balance
punitive justice and
corrective action in
order to build racial
tolerance as part of
ethos of society.
There are reported
incidents of racism
on commercial
farms and a few
white farmers have
been successfully
convicted over