Newsletter| During my visit with Helen Zille, I opined that our disagreement and retarded progress on social justice principally stemmed from the fact that, as a nation, we did not concretise our vision of the South Africa we want, writes ThuliMadonsela3
We also need clarity on the role of business and civil society.
As I reflected on the issue in preparation for our tea, it dawned on me that the white privilege discord was the tip of the iceberg. Global white privilege is, in essence, about a world that is modelled around you as the ideal human being, the highest form of human expression, worthy of human dignity, rights, respect and even deference.
Told by a colleague during my Harvard advanced leadership fellowship in 2017, the story dramatises the impact of unjust exclusion on future equality. We acknowledged the unjust past, but did not come to a conclusion on the nature of the shadow it continues to cast on us. This may be the ideal platform for discussing and arriving at a national compact on transcending the complex shadow of our past.
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