JOHANNESBURG, June 4 — South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Foundation said today violence can be a rational response to racism and for some communities is the only way to elicit change, as protests raged across the United States over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died after a police officer knelt...
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JOHANNESBURG, June 4 — South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Foundation said today violence can be a rational response to racism and for some communities is the only way to elicit change, as protests raged across the United States over the death of George Floyd. The foundation, set up to guard the legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically-elected president, said that violence is often too readily dismissed as the work of extremists or criminals, when it can be the result of careful calculation by communities who “see that only such action elicits the desired response from the state”.
Violent struggle helped bring an end to a system of segregation and white minority rule in South Africa. But 26 years after the end of apartheid, the country is still grappling with racial tensions and massive inequality, with the foundation saying democracy had not “yet ensured black lives matter as much as white lives”.
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