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When is Non-Racialism Not Non-Racialism? When it is Carried Out by Methods of Constitutional Vandalism in South Africa – The Common Sense | SA News

Hermann Pretorius 
Over the past few weeks, an important public debate has unfolded between myself and Christo van der Rheede of the FW de Klerk Foundation over one of the defining constitutional questions of post-apartheid South Africa: does the Constitution require or even allow race-based redress?

At stake is far more than disagreement over employment equity or procurement policy. The debate cuts to the heart of South Africa’s constitutional settlement. Is non-racialism merely an aspirational future destination temporarily suspended while the democratic state continues to classify and treat citizens differently according to race? Or is non-racialism the binding constitutional…

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