Article 4SXGB Why are South African cities still so segregated 25 years after apartheid? | Justice Malala

Why are South African cities still so segregated 25 years after apartheid? | Justice Malala

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Justice Malala in Johannesburg
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After 1994, the architecture of apartheid - the separation of rich and poor, black and white - was to be eradicated with creative and determined urban planning. It has not quite happened

It doesn't take long after I drive out of the sleek OR Tambo international airport for the penny to drop. Again. Johannesburg is the bastard child of the worst aspects of capitalist greed and 20th-century racism. Nearly 150 years after its formation, this sprawling metropolis is still scarred by the sins of its genesis.

Even with the explosive rise of the black middle class, the presence of blacks in formerly white suburbs remains low

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