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South Africa: Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
Zindzi said the family planned to give Mandela a collage of family photographs for a present and have lunch together at the hospital where their patriarch is being treated.
Despite the adulation on his birthday, Mandela’s post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’ still has many issues to be resolved.
Enormous gaps still persist in income, employment and access to education and these inequalities largely follow racial lines, according to the government’s own data. White households in 2012 earn on average about six times more than black households.
Nevertheless, quality education and employment opportunities have also been opened up to tens of thousands of black South Africans.
This has meant the ‘Rainbow Nation’ becoming a reality at integrated universities and in major city suburbs, where a new professional class of college-educated black South Africans has been moving into once exclusively white neighborhoods.
