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Thirty years ago, South Africa was heralded as a harbinger of a just and non-racial order. After decades of a criminal, repellent regime, Nelson Mandela’s ascension to the presidency and the restorative work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, designed to heal the country and provide national unity, gave the country—and the world—abundant hope. Three decades on, that hope has been dashed. A miniscule percentage of the Black majority are landowners or control any of the means of production. Inequality is rampant and accelerating. Nearly half of the working-age population can be…

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