Articles tagged ‘Affirmative Action’

South African Chinese Caught in Racial Limbo - Again

By Ben | February 2nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »

(An SA Blog post in honor of the Chinese New Year.)
The concept of “race” in South Africa involves more acrobatics than the Moscow Circus. Nowadays, it’s generally accepted that race is an inherently-plastic, culturally-manufactured idea, always changing with the times. But for a half-century previous, this rather enlightened notion struggled to germinate, being ground, as [...]