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Re-Education
Community

The Challenges of Building

A NEW SOUTH AFRICA

By Prof. Herbert Vilakazi, courtesy of Dr Mfuniselwa Bhengu, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

any years after 1994, it remains a is also undesirable, from the point of view of the
truism, in observations about South social, cultural, and spiritual health of the society;
MAfrica, that economic leadership it is also likely to give rise to distortions and errors

of the country is still in the hands of the white in public policies, which may, in time, seriously
population, which is less than a fifth of the total endanger the political stability of the country.
population of the country. Just about everyone is A great danger hovering over the current efforts
in agreement with the view that this situation poses to transform South Africa into a democratic and
a danger to the stability and future of democracy developing society is the paucity of the inputs of
in the country. African thinkers and intellectuals in the public life
Likewise, the intellectual leadership of the country of society, and in playing the role of `Think-Tank’

is also being exercised by a small minority, of contemporary South Africa.
Whites. It must be stressed that such a situation

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