While 56 people, implicated in the shooting and killing of civilians, have been arrested and charged, there is a stunning silence on the authors and instigators of the insurrection, including those who used social media. This perception, is real for many people in KZN, while the spectre of the 1948 riots looms large in the minds of Indians. Witnesses testifying before the SAHRC have argued that most Indians are racist. South Africans, of all races, live on a constant knife edge, but this is so much more attenuated in places like Phoenix and in Gauteng. The definitive question of our time, which must be linked to the legacy of the transformation of in South Africa, is whether the state’s failure to implement the TRC recommendations has deepened racial divisions and inequality.
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