SPECIAL FEATURE: Half a life in apartheid, half a life in democracy. In a new series, EWN speaks to 50-year-old citizens to get their views on what they think has changed [or hasn’t] in SA.
Twenty-five years of democracy is a milestone that South Africans are grappling to understand. Do we commerate or is there still too much to fix before we celebrate? We spoke to 50-year-old South Africans who have lived half their lives in apartheid and the other half in democracy for some perspective.Govender, who's lived half her life during apartheid and the other half in a democracy, says that some people in South Africa are still being oppressed today.
Govender, who grew up on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal before moving to Johannesburg, and eventually settling in Cape Town, said that she lived a sheltered life and only really felt the effects of apartheid when going into the Durban city centre. "Our kids cannot play in the park. I was little and we used to run into the fields for hours in a day and nobody bothered to look for us. That was freedom. We are not in a country that enjoys freedom."
But she still feels that with issues like an ailing rail service, corruption, and rampant crime, the situation hasn't vastly improved for some people.
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